The christocentrist position arose when, about 1100, it began to be taught that the cause of Christ’s incarnation was God’s predestining man to deification—a christology, in other words, developed in relation to a particular view of God’s eternal will for the temporal order.

Imagine first our rich mockado doublet, With our cut cloth-of-gold sleeves […]

Godlike erect, with native honour clad.

Dark eyes, epicanthic folds obviously the result of surgery, an angry dusting of acne across pale narrow cheeks.