God creates and is present to all his creation through the Spirit. God puts flesh on his word in Jesus and embodies the life of man as he created him to be. The incarnation is the key Christian teaching of embodiment. The Christian God is not completely remote and distant from us. Even though God is transcendent and above us, he is also immanent and near. God has been embodied among us in the person of Jesus Christ. . . . God’s embodied reality among us calls us into an embodied spirituality before him. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 176.