The incarnation--the act of God assuming mortal flesh through Jesus Christ--reveals God's radical love for a world marked by the rebellion of the created against their creator.
God becomes human to create life and restore the disrupted divine-human relationship.
This doctrine is thus the theme of the Christian faith par excellence.
However, the incarnation does not begin with its ultimate realization in Jesus Christ; that single event is preceded by a long history of a God who continually reu.