the scandal of the incarnation
Posted by tom | Apr 3, 2007Over the centuries, Christians have grown adept at finding ways to disincarnate the religion, resisting the scandalous notion that what is holy can have much to do with the muck and smell of a stable, the painful agony of death on a cross. The Incarnation remains a scandal to anyone who wants religion to be a purely spiritual matter, an etherized, bloodless bliss. It remains a scandal to Christians who fear and despise the human body, or those who want to hear only of a Jesus who is all-knowing, all-powerful--surely not the human being of Matthew or Mark, subject to temptation and ordinary emotions such as irritation and weariness.
Kathleen Norris
Amazing Grace
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