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March 9, 2012

"The glow of Jesus has come to us distorted"

by the distance light has to traverse over 2000 years to reach the here and now,
bounced along the way off such cracked mirrors, bent copper pans and dented silver chalices that the Gospel writers and Church leaders have been, and all men are. It’s miraculous that unknown outside a little sliver of a remote, benighted province at its inception, and multiplexed with great noise as it has been since, the transmission has reached us at all. Admitting that we don’t know where the noise ends and the transcendent music begins could rebuild a stout foundation for a new Christian spirituality. “There lives more faith in an honest doubt,“ wrote one of the great 10-percenters of the 19th century, Alfred Tennyson, “than in half the creeds.” -- Gates of Vienna: The Bee and the Lamb, Part 5 [HT: Birddog @ Maggie's Farm]

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 9, 2012 8:15 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Poppycock. God's Word is a direct revelation to us, it is in the Bible, and no distant rays of speculative blah blah blah has changed it.

Anyone who wants to know who God is can read their Bibles and find all they need to know.

Posted by: Marie at March 9, 2012 9:31 AM

A new Christian spirituality?

You bet. In the face of the trials to come, the half-hearted and theologically confused are going to rapidly drop away from the Church, leaving a core of serious Christians who will lead Christianity into a renascence. Christianity will be particularly attractive, for example, to young Americans who have grown up in a secular, utilitarian world and have been derailed from the American Dream into poverty; they'll have to get back to what's fundamental in life. God will be waiting.

Of course, this will take decades...

Posted by: ahem at March 9, 2012 9:59 AM

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