"if Jesus is the true human, the irreducible difference of the human being in relation to God is perfected in direct (as opposed to inverse) relation to the perfection of the unio of his humanity with the divine Logos. In Christ, the relation of divinity and humanity must be, in the first place, and basically, non-contrastive and non-competitive. . . .
". . . only the confession of the 'one Lord Jesus Christ' maximally preserves the integrity and difference of verus homo before verus Deus. . . . [B]eginning from an abstract idea of what his humanity might be apart from that unio, Christian theology fails before it even begins."
Aaron Riches, Ecce homo: on the divine unity of Christ (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016), 7-8. 7n12: "the deeper and more perfect the union, the more each is realized in its distinct integrity. Union [with true God!] differentiates."
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