My Lord and My God: this is the summing up by St Thomas the doubter after he had seen the Christ risen from the dead. It is the challenge every man since has had to face: is Christ God?

The following is not going to be an exhaustive analysis of the evidence, nor is it to be written in an apologetic spirit. My aim is to state the position as I see it.

The Catholic Church today holds as its basic object of belief the fact that Christ is God. The Protestants wobble, some do believe, some do not. The Eastern Churches, until their contact with moderniam, held the Catholic faith. It was this foot—that Christ, is God and Man—that was worked out in the first six councils of the Church between the 4th and 6th centuries.

Nicaea: ‘We believe… in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. begotten of the Father, only begotten, that is of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father, through whom all things were made.…’