"Robert Hugh Benson was one of the brightest lights in the Catholic literary firmament in the early years of the twentieth century, his star waxing in the brilliance of several bestselling novels." — JOSEPH PEARCE * * * How can the Almighty God, who is infinite and eternal, be weary by the wayside, work in a carpentry shop, and die on a cross? How can the Word of God remain silent for thirty years? How can the Omnipotent recline in a manger? How can the Source of Life be put to death? If Christ is a man, how can He proclaim that He and His Father are one? If Christ is God, how can He assert that His Father is greater than He? These are questions that have perplexed theologians for centuries, yet the answers remain as mysterious as ever. It is clear that only Catholic doctrine holds the key to these questions. For only a Catholic can receive the Gospels as they were originally written, only a person who believes that Christ is both God and man, and is willing to accept the paradox of the incarnation, the extraordinary mystery that the infinite and finite nature were united in a single Person, from which the Eternal was manifested in time and the Uncreated Creator united creation to Himself. In short, only a Catholic is capable of fully understanding the mysterious phenomena of the life of Christ without exception.
