Sublime

“For most American Christians, the gospel is about getting my sins forgiven so I can go to heaven when I die.”

“Though I have all faith so to move mountains and have not love, I am nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:2).

Linking this text to his account of soteriology in Theo-Drama, we see that the bridge is neither fully Son nor Spirit, but some strange combination of both—a dead man and a fragile trickle of love from his wound.

The story the gospels are telling, once we turn down the overly loud volume of the second speaker, which has simply been shouting, “He’s divine! He’s divine!” is the story of how YHWH came back to his people at last.

The Bible was written

Gorman adds, “That conformity [to Christ], for Paul, is narrative in character, a two-part drama of suffering/death followed by resurrection/exaltation. Thus the narrative of the community in Christ must correspond to the narrative of its Lord.”27

For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves;

Julian of Norwich, “The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”