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Ron Rolheiser column
Week of April 11 2021
Whatever energy we don’t transform, we will transmit. That’s a phrase I first heard from Richard Rohr and it names a central challenge for all mature adults. Here’s its Christian expression.
Central to our understanding of how we are saved by Jesus is a truth expressed by the phrase:
Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. How are we saved through Jesus’ suffering? Obviously, that’s a metaphor. Jesus is not a sheep, so we need to tease out the reality beneath the metaphor. What prompted the first generation of Christians to use the image of a suffering sheep to explain what Jesus did for us, and how does Jesus’ suffering take away our sins? Was there a debt for sin which only God’s own suffering could cancel? Was the forgiveness of our sins some kind of private, divine transaction between God and Jesus?
Desire of All Nations
March 17, 2021
“I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory” (Haggai 2:9).
In his recent apologetic/philosophical/biblical work
Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World,[1] N. T. Wright argues that most common people and ordinary folks unconsciously and intuitively have universal yearnings or longings for realities and ideas of Love, Justice, Power, Beauty, Freedom, and Truth. He called these anthropological impulses imperfect or “broken signposts” that point to something beyond their reality: namely, to the flawless divine revelation demonstrated in the actual being of Christ, the fulfillment and fullness of what really makes sense.
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The concept behind
Broken Signposts is both simple and challenging, old and new. In the most recent of his many books, the Anglican theologian and biblical scholar N. T. Wright formerly bishop of Durham, now a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews takes us through seven universally preoccupying themes: justice, love, spirituality, beauty, freedom, truth and power.
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His premise is that each of these themes is a kind of signpost directing us toward some fundamentally important truth the kind that philosophers, writers and artists all try to decode. But their attempts are necessarily flawed, because the only way to real understanding is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. Unless we ground our thinking in that one perfect and universal source of knowledge, the signposts of our world cannot do more than point us vaguely along the right path. On their own, they are broken.
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