He became what we are that he might make us what he is.

God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.

The mystery of Christ, that He sunk Himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

As far as the Incarnation is concerned, I believe firmly in it. I believe that God did lean down to become Man in order that we could reach up to Him, and that the drama which embodies that Incarnation, the drama described in the Creed, took place.

Nowhere is salvation conceived of as a flight from history as in Greek thought; it is always the coming of God to man in history. Man does not ascend to God; God descends to man. The Last Things (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans: 1978) 43