Yet somehow the man Christ Jesus has always been seen to be the best revelation of God.
But unless there were some human element in the Deity, he could not reveal himself so in a human life.

The doctrine of the incarnation, therefore, repeats the Mosaic statement that "man was made in the image of God." Jewish and Mohammedan monotheism separate God entirely from the world.
Philosophic monotheism, in our day, separates God from man, by teaching that there is nothing in common between the two by which God can be mediated, and so makes him wholly incomprehensible.

Christianity gives us Emmanuel, God with us, equally removed from the stern despotic omnipotence of the Semitic monotheism and the finite and imperfect humanities of Olympus.

We see God in Christ, as full of sympathy with man, God "in us all"; and yet we see him in nature, providence, history, as "above all" and "through all." The Roman Catholic Church has, perhaps, humanized religion too far.

For every god and goddess of Greece she has given us, on some immortal canvas, an archangel or a saint to be adored and loved.
Instead of Apollo and the Python we have Guido's St.Michael and the Dragon; in place of the light, airy Mercury she provides a St.Sebastian; instead of the "untouched" Diana, some heavenly Agnes or Cecilia.