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"Not I, but Christ": allegory and the puritan self.
Christianity, however, never, even in its most reformed mode, renounces nostalgia and desire. Even as reformers preach an "experimental" understanding of the Word, their own orthodoxy insists that the Word is never fully and immediately experienced in what we familiarly call the here and now. They preserve allegorical ontology even as they rail against exegesis and a faith based on tropes and shadows. If the Word is always literal, then experience itself is but an allegorical shadow of the life to come.
In claiming that his flesh had been destroyed ("scrap't away," Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God
Philippians 2:6
If subversion is possible, it will be a subversion from within the terms of the law, through the possibilities that emerge when the law turns against itself and spawns unexpected permutations of itself.
Judith Butler(1)
If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ. But so what? You know being Christ ain't nothing. I claim my father sits on the throne. Doesn't yours? Isn't your father God?
David Koresh, Leader of the Branch Davidians, Waco, Texas, February, 1993
- Trope and truth in The Pilgrim's Progress.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Machosky, Brenda January 1, 2007 700+ words
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- Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in Representation.
- Magazine article from: The Review of English Studies Keeble, N.H. May 1, 1997 700+ words
...Luxon develops this point through an examination of the case of William Franklin and Mary Gadbury, who, in 1649, claimed respectively to be the Christ and his spouse. They were excoriated not, as we might expect, for being absurdly literalistic...
- Indwelling Christ, indwelling Christians: living as marked.
- Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission Stortz, Martha Ellen June 1, 2007 700+ words
...explore both sides of indwelling: the way Christ dwells in us, and also the less-explored side of indwelling, the way we dwell in Christ. We Christians are marked women and men...our body. In the Eucharist, we take Christ's body into our own and literally become...
- Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Miller, Keith Graber October 30, 2007 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Church History Tyler, J. Jeffery March 1, 2008 700+ words
Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to...claim that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. According to Cohen, over the last two millennia the Christ-killer myth has been essential to the development...
- Christ without culture.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion,...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard John April 1, 2007 700+ words
...big picture of the relationship between Christ and culture is, at the beginning of the...is perhaps just as well. Speaking of Christ and Culture will, for many, immediately...ways in which the relationship between Christ and culture, meaning Christianity and...
- Christ among us: the Eucharist is the sacrament of the gathered assembly.
- Magazine article from: America Kubicki, Judith M. October 3, 2005 700+ words
...experienced their personal relationship with Christ. After the resurrection, this personal...and worship is belief in the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. But the way that belief...historical reasons. The Manifold Presence of Christ The years leading up to the Second Vatican...
- Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John Calvin.(Review) (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: The Ecumenical Review Hesselink, I. John July 1, 1999 700+ words
Peter Wyatt, Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John...Calvin's theology: the relation of Christ to creation or, more technically, the...theology. Wyatt, a United Church of Christ in Canada minister and currently an executive...
- Christ the King: November 25, 2007.(Preaching Helps)(Sermon)
- Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission Miller, David L. August 1, 2007 700+ words
...faithfully and unfailingly works in Jesus, the Christ. The readings for Christ the King offer a cosmic vision that extends from...Christian hymn with an exalted Christology celebrates Christ as the face of the eternal wonder of God (v. 15...
- Le Christ de Tertullien.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Theological Studies Efroymson, David P. September 1, 2005 700+ words
LE CHRIST DE TERTULLIEN. By Jerome Alexandre. Jesus et Jesus-Christ, vol. 88. Paris: Desclee, 2004. Pp. 297. 27...far more, and arguably richer fare in Tertullian on Christ, the neglect of which would leave us poorer theologically...
