Can you sum up Christianity in a single word? This is something only God could do—and he did so in the first century through the writings of his apostles. God in a Word: Five Meditations on the Incarnation of Christ cracks the first verses of the Gospel of John wide open, spilling light on a mystery of the faith that has both challenged church fathers and strengthened the faith of common believers for two thousand years.
How can it be that God became man? That the God whose face was too radiant and holy for Moses to behold would walk and talk among men? That the Creator who made men would stoop to wash their feet, and allow the hands of his enemies to drive nails through his own hands and feet?