I was having a similar discussion with my dad last night. We were talking about the medieval practice of divine imagination which envisions Jesus in different social or gender roles as an exhibition of what it means to be godly within those spaces. Victorian Theologians did away with that kind of thinking by bringing in strong language about the authority of scripture essentially doing away with that practice both in Protestantism and Catholicism. I have been struggling to find words why that feels so wrong but maybe it's tied to the talents. Yes, God has given us His word and nature and each other as His testimony about Himself, but maybe that's just the beginning--maybe we were supposed to take that story and invest it in others in order to receive a spiritual return and we didn't. We just counted our spiritual coins and said, "this alone my Master has given me and nothing more," and buried it in the ground to keep it safe.
Enjoyable post. I'm eager to see where it goes.
I was having a similar discussion with my dad last night. We were talking about the medieval practice of divine imagination which envisions Jesus in different social or gender roles as an exhibition of what it means to be godly within those spaces. Victorian Theologians did away with that kind of thinking by bringing in strong language about the authority of scripture essentially doing away with that practice both in Protestantism and Catholicism. I have been struggling to find words why that feels so wrong but maybe it's tied to the talents. Yes, God has given us His word and nature and each other as His testimony about Himself, but maybe that's just the beginning--maybe we were supposed to take that story and invest it in others in order to receive a spiritual return and we didn't. We just counted our spiritual coins and said, "this alone my Master has given me and nothing more," and buried it in the ground to keep it safe.