Incarnation

Standard Greek Orthodox theological term (also σάρκωσις, ‘being made flesh’), central to the patristic formula, written originally in Greek by Athanasius, ‘God became man so that man might become god’ (theosis). Ensure Romans’ own emphasis — the incarnation qualifying Christ as kinsman-redeemer, inaugurating justification, Romans 1:3-4, 8:3 — is not lost beneath the theosis framing, which a Greek reader accesses in the original patristic language, not in translation.