incarnation again…
Posted by Paul | Filed under uncategorised
A spin-off thought from the previous post. Well more of an embryonic thought,really. I wonder if incarnation is a key concept for our point in history. The neo-Calvanist focus on creation, with the emphasis on creation ordinances, etc. makes good connections in a world dominated by modernism. Perhaps emphasising incarnation can take us on in the right direction to go beyond modernism (I know, I’ve said something like this before…)
A number of things prompt me in this direction: Michael Ramsden gives an ever-facinating quote from Derrida (or Foucault? I forget): ‘Our only hope is if the word became flesh and lived among us.’
The Reason (in many senses) behind the universe arrives and becomes part of it. As I said before, how can that not change everything?
Also, for a post-modern world, the idea that the author of everything might enter his story and submit to to his characters has many resonances — the meta-narrative does something totally unexpected and unambiguously non-oppressive.
And finally, it seems to me that incarnation starts to blur the line between objectivity and subjectivity in a way that can make sense in a beyond-modernism worldview.
I don’t know. Only a hunch, but I have a feeling that something might fit here…
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