Interpreting the Gospels

Abstract

"At the heart of the gospel is the bold assertion that in Jesus Christ eternity has intersected time. Christianity is unique among the religions of the world not only in proclaiming that God has acted and revealed himself in history but that God has indeed entered history in his Son. The fact that God has manifested himself in time and space—this itself the culmination of many centuries of anticipation and preparation in the history of Israel—constitutes the center of the Church's faith. This sacred history (the incarnation and the complex of events surrounding it) has become the glory of Christianity"