I am rereading On the Apostolic Preaching, this time very slowly (I read it in haste back, I think, in 1999). The first time I read it I was disappointed by its simplicity. I see now how much I missed; the work is brilliant in packing so much into so few words. I now give this work my highest recommendation. Here’s a great bit on the incarnation, original sin, the passion, and the overcoming of death: So He united man with God and wrought a communion of God and man, we being unable to have any participation in incorruptibility if it were not for His coming to us, for incorruptibility, whilst being invisible, benefitted us nothing: so He became visible, that we might, in…