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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/21/2002 2:00 AM (GMT -6) |   | Speaking of Christ and speaking of Torah...
St. Maximus the Confessor (6th or 7th cent, a brilliant theologian whos synthesis and very whole, well integrated and expansive theology growing out of the incarnation serves as foundationally in most of Byzantine theology...) talks about three (3) incarnations of the Logos; and he has a point. (A Lutheran named Thunberg wrote a great book on him called "Man and the Cosmos.") It might serve as good colateral material here. So to put it in a nutshell...
#3 The Incarnation in the flesh needs no description here.
#1 The incarnation in creation really does need some unpacking. Oh, we know it. but we don't think WITH it, we only think about it occasionally. And we ussually don't live it. The Logos (Gen. 1 & Jn 1) not only creates, but sustains, everything. By His word, and each things has a unique spoken logos (sm. "l") that goes with its nature. (We really do sometimes us the God of "Uhrwerk"--18th cent. "clockwork"--and just have that God return.) So, everything is a contant presence of Christ in Creation. (Any Lutherans out there?)
That said, NOW we can move on to the #2 incarnation. The Word incarnates Himself in the written word. NO, the Bible is not an idol. But the paper book (CD?) is something in/through which the Word is biven to us, and has/does enter the creation. So its an incarnation.
I think that what is discussed here, then, should be run back through this filter occasionally. Making contradistinctions between the "God of the OT" and the "God of the NT" might serve purposes occassionally. Jung had a good one with Job. But we MUST remember that it is The Pre-Christ incarnat Logos, PERSONALLY who is incarnate in the OT.
Wouldn't you like to have seen Christ read HIS Word?
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Mephi2K
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| Posted 2/21/2002 5:18 AM (GMT -6) | | POW:
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Wouldn't you like to have seen Christ read HIS Word?
Definitely. I would have loved to see how he interpreted things like the "42 youths" and "Ezekiel's wife" passages. That would have made my life so much easier. Heh.
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 2/21/2002 11:32 AM (GMT -6) | | Meph, LOL.
But seriously... In the part of western Penn. that my wife grew up in, the carpenters hava saying for when in building a barn or a house, and the wood isn't quite straight, or the nail bends, etc. They say something that theologians should keep in perspective too. Not everything matters as much as some other things. But some things are key. Here's the saying:
"Sometimes you just aren't building a piano."
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