Female Flesh, the Epicenter of the Spirit

Amy Peeler, in her new important work, Women and the Gender of God, explains the incarnation in a way many neglect: it’s not just God become man; it’s God become the man Jesus through a specific woman, Mary.

There is no human father here; there is only a human mother. This makes Jesus a male like no other male ever. Ponder with me this statement of hers: