Christian Theology in a Thumbnail: Jesus (4)
In the last post I talked about Jesus in the language given us by the Bible and theological tradition. In this post I want to offer further reflection on Christ using different language and images that bring home certain key but often forgotten aspects of his identity and work. The first is that I believe we can’t grasp Jesus properly until we consider him as a “problem child.” Yes, a problem child. And the other image I want to pursue is Jesus as God’s “subversive counter-revolutionary.” First, Jesus is a problem child. I mean this quite literally. Anyone and everyone he encounters will have their minds and hearts teased, stretched, and or broken by his reality. No one can control him, he forces them respond to his reality. Just think about it: Mary and Joseph, the magi, Herod and all of Jerusalem, John...