I was reading today's Toronto Star and I suppose being Easter weekend they needed to give Jesus some coverage. Of course it was highly controversial pushing Christianity to the brink of insanity and perhaps beyond. The first blasphemous article claimed that perhaps the cross was actually a "T" and not a "t". And if this weren't enough they went to say that maybe the nails were not driven through his hands but through his forearms. Needless to say there has been outrage. "Several theologians say it's offensive to deliberately ignore the iconic depiction venerated by millions of Christians, Catholics in particular."
The second article appears to swipe the legs right out from under the Christianity machine. Here the unprecedented statement is made that Jesus may not have actually been interested in forming a new religion. It is not surprising that we the faithful have missed such a controversial claim as Barry Wilson took "a close reading of the story of Jesus – some drawing on lost gospels not included in modern Bibles" which "reveal[ed] that he was not trying to establish a new religion in his name."
Lord have mercy. How do you even start to respond? If this is a controversial as it gets these days I am not sure what that is telling us about these books authors or about their readers.
Christ have mercy.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
I Don't Believe in Nothing No More!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Mysterium Paschale - Lent 08
I just received my copy of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Mysterium Paschale (The Mystery of Easter). This will be my Lenten text. I am planning an Easter Vigil service on Saturday night of Easter weekend. I am hoping my readings here and the centrality of Balthasar's account of Christ's descent into hell will significantly shape what this service will look like.
From the preface to the second edition,
We shall never know how to express the abyss-like depths of the Father's self-giving, that Father who . . . makes himself 'destitute' of all that he is and can be so as to bring forth a consubstantial divinity, the Son. Everything that can be thought and imagined where God is concerned is, in advance, included and transcended in this self-destitution which constitutes the person of the Father, and at the same time, those of the Son and the Spirit. God as 'gulf' of absolute Love contains in advance, eternally, all the modalities of love, of compassion, and even of a 'separation' motivated by love.
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