Christianity is of course a way of seeing the world, but it can't be reduced to this. As with Scripture, so with the Church - there are many ways of understanding it. All are true, all are important. I just finished reading Borella's *Secret of the Christian Way*. A truly enlightening work. I found the "Threefold Body of Christ" doctrine truly fascinating, but its depth can only be appreciated once someone already has an understanding of how the Church understands itself - and very few people, her enemies especially, actually understand the Church. There is the Church Militant (those still fighting for salvation against the real risk of damnation, i.e. Christians in the world), the Church Suffering (those who are guaranteed salvation, but who still have impurities and attachments to be purged, i.e. those in Purgatory), and the Church Triumphant (those who have attained salvation, i.e. those in heaven). Borella, drawing on a couple of Medieval theologians, associates this threefold division of the Church - which *is the Mystical Body of Christ* - with the threefold stages of Christ's Body, as unassaulted (*Corpus integrum*), as enduring His Passion (*Corpus passum*), and as glorified / resurrected (*Corpus gloriosum*). And there is a final threefold division, the *Corpus natum*, as born, *Corpus eucharistum*, as sacrament, and *Corpus mysticum*, as Church. Just as the pre-Passion, Passion, and Glorified Body of Christ is *the same Body throughout*, so too is the "pre-sacramental" Church, the Blessed Sacrament, and the Mystical Body of Christ is *the same Body*. And Borella also points out that, just as the *essence* of Christianity - which you've referred to here - must *always* have reference to the Trinity, so too must the *existence* of Christianity (and thus the Church) always have reference to the Incarnation - to the Body of Christ. And unlike an essence, which can be contemplated intellectually but not directly seen, the Body is *just that which is seen*. And so if the *existence* of Christianity is inseparable from the Body, the Incarnation, then it is by this Body that Christians must see the world. And this is the same Body that the Jews crucified, the same Body that *by crucifying*, Jewish identity is today defined. So yes, you rightly point out that Judaism and Christianity are diametrically opposed, not just essentially, but in terms of worldview, of existence, of perception. @BurnInHelena