Kathryn Tanner and the receptivity of Christ and the Church

In conversation with Kathryn Tanner’s Christology, I argue that Jesus’ receptivity matters. He is who he is, and his story goes the way it goes, only because of what receives on receiving from all surrounds him. Similarly, church grows learns by encounters in world. These can be occasions for work Spirit upon it, drawing into life God has established world Jesus. Neither incarnate nor should conceived as involving preservation creaturely interaction dependence.