@suzania On “bringing the importance of the narrative dimensions of the cross into greater clarity”, I recall 'Violence Unveiled', @gbailie's reflection on Girard. Both men recognize the Crucifixion's theological claim becomes intelligible only _after_ it is recognized anthropologically.
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“The great obstacle to all peacemaking: the subtle defense mechanisms we use to preserve not knowing. So the work of peacemaking is always prophetic; it requires us to see in order to act.” "I believe we cannot fully understand these teachings without understanding that Christ crucified is Christ executed." A question, then. Why was Jesus murdered? We know why James Lawson, who invited Dr. King to Memphis for his fateful encounter, told me once he refers to King's murder as a 'crucifixion'. Why was Dr. King ["among the most hated men in America"@TheKingCenter] crucified? Why was Jesus crucified? We know why@UniteThePoor Photo of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his words, "We must also realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be resolved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power." Surprise, surprise, this pivotal personal and cultural locus of a functional Christology is also a universal, trans-dispensational claim of planetary prophetology. So then: @WaltBrueggemann: "Love of God comes as love of neighbor with an immediate, concrete, economic dimension.”
Open original document@AimeTim end/ His concern, he said, not religion, but its anthropology and, as such, the staggering features of Jesus' murder ultimately revealing the only way out of a revolving hall of projections - our "automatic, unconscious, ingrained and mimetic" escalating war of all against all.
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Tweet and quote tweet here: "Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else." ~ @RichardRohrOFM “We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are." ~ C.G. Jung Quote tweet: Hence, Jung: “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our own shadow onto others.” And Richo: “The goal of an evolved consciousness is to take its projections back.”