@BremenBod Worldly _and_ religious structures of consciousness and power. "Jesus is not the creator of another religion but the victor over religion. He is not the maker of another law but the conqueror of law. He is the end of religion, above Christianity and non-Christianity." - Tillich
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Copy of tweet thread: "What we have to learn is not that the church "has" a mission, but the very reverse: that the mission of Christ creates its own church." 2/ #RenéGirard: "Jesus is not there in order to stress once again in his own person the unified violence of the sacred; he is not there to ordain and govern like Moses..." 3/ #RenéGirard: "...he is not there to unite a people around him, to forge its unity in the crucible of rites and prohibitions, but on the contrary, to turn this long page of human history once and for all."
@CACRadicalGrace @brianmclaren @AnthonyMBarr: "I believe we cannot fully understand these teachings without understanding that Christ crucified is Christ executed." What, then, do the staggering features of the murder of the Messiah reveal? #GoodFriday @UniteThePoor
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