The imagery and iconography of Christmas centres on the beauty of new birth and the sight of complete innocence and purity presented to us in a baby, the infant whom the angel commanded his parents to name Jesus, ‘Saviour’.
This sight of a baby saviour stretches the elasticity of our conceptual imagination further than it can easily travel. In this child, we find ourselves, as the prologue to the Gospel of John describes, building a span or a bridge between the Intelligence, the Logos, that holds the universe in being, and this invasion of time and space by that Mind in the form of living matter, emerging as both vulnerability and infancy.
