Net Article, May 25 2008

Because you gave Jesus Christ, your only Son, to be born for us; who, by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit, was made perfect Man of the flesh of the Virgin Mary his mother; so that we might be delivered from the bondage of sin, and receive power to become your children. BCP p. 378

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
One of Anglicanism’s greatest strengths is our incarnational theology. Simply stated we believe that God became man in the person of Jesus Christ – He was and is, simultaneously, God and man. The Nicene Creed, composed in the fourth century during two councils of the early Catholic (universal) church, is probably our finest statement of this way of believing in God. The early church had to reconcile competing interpretations about the nature of Jesus and his relationship to God the Father. The result of this reconciliation of thought, faith and experience is a creedal statement that continues to strengthen and bind together our Church 1600 years later.
The truth of incarnational theology is its recognition that mankind, on its own, will never be able to solve the dilemma of human evil and moral weakness. In coming to earth Jesus affirmed that only through our relationship with our Father in Heaven would we be able to be the men and women God intends us to be. By the example of His life, death and resurrection, Jesus showed us what a sin-less life looked like. By His devotion to prayer and community He showed us how righteous people should live and treat each other. And by His death on the cross He showed us true obedience to God’s will and also how far God would go to save us.
Jon