Early Christians Struggled to Understand How Exactly Jesus Christ Accomplished This for Us

In one of my favorite parts from your chapter, and i'm going to readit with a warning that it's a little bit longer of an excerpt, but i think it's well worth it. So this debate was not a purely intellectual pursuit, this debate about christology. While early christians certainly brought all their intellectual resources to bear on these questions, their concern was far from academic. In fact, for them, the salvation of humanity was at stake. And i love this because it underscores that the stakes are high, we might even say eternally high, in the minds of these early christians,. just as they're eternally high for for us.