Re: And ANOTHER thing wrong with the article . . . Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron on March 13, 2019, 11:02 pm, in reply to "Re: And ANOTHER thing wrong with the article . . . "
if you know anything about Christ's theology... Hmmm...Christ's theology... My early reaction to reading the New Testament was "Great!... but where's the rest of it?". What was there was exciting enough but then came the sinking feeling and the suspicion that, as I would put it these days; the lacunae was in fact followed by a mass palimpsest. I'm not the only one either. Blake put his finger on the revolutionary Christ that he perceived and the paucity of substance that leads some to talk of his theology as though it were something dully apparent: The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my Vision’s Greatest Enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like thine; Mine has a snub nose like to mine. Thine is the friend of All Mankind; Mine speaks in parables to the Blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates; Thy Heaven doors are my Hell Gates. Socrates taught what Melitus Loathd as a Nation’s bitterest Curse; And Caiphas was in his own Mind A benefactor to Mankind. Both read the Bible day & night, But thou readst black where I read white. As one commentator put it "In this case, Blake’s lines move from a sophomoric argumentative innocence about the Bible, to a more sobering adult experience, in which intense biblical study leads some to the conclusion that they must, in the name of a higher good, annihilate those who they perceive are the Bible’s enemies..." So being on the side of the revolution...when a conservative Christian tells me: "...you sure seem like a Pharisee sometimes...": that I'm Caiphas, it makes me smile; because the Vision of Christ that thou dost see...
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