Christmas Day is hardly the ideal time for engaging with Hebrews, either. The theology in this reading is as dense as a Christmas pudding full of rich ingredients. The Greek word character means an imprinted likeness, such as a coin portrait. That feels like quite enough about the natures of Father and Son to be wrestling with during the Christmas festive period. But the next Greek word is going to raise the alert level of every theologian to DEFCON 1: hypostasis.

Source: The Times December 18, 2023 13:36 UTC