When the world was spinning in the heart of darkness due to Covid-19 wrath, and everybody was scampering for survival, Mon Echica, a high-caliber systematic theologian, saw different kind of light and grabbed it to his advantage to navigate in chaos. Like a hovering spirit, he systematized his long-held thoughts – honed by time, academic and pastoral engagements – and resulted in a work of a genius, a rare cross between the pastoral and scholarly, intuitively bridging the gap between Moses’ and Jesus’ infancy narratives to depict God as history’s prime mover, faith and its ethical dimension, Jesus the Prince of Peace and violence, humor and the powerful, Jesus and the evolution of moral consciousness and the lights and shadows of Filipino clergy. This rare book, one of the positive by products of Covid-19, offers profound theological insights into Philippine society.