Ascension Meditation
At this week's discussion of the Sunday readings I heard some of the theology that is being kicked around among older practitioners of the ghostly trade, the same age group that gave us bugger priests and certain portions of Vatican II, not to mention wild interpretations of it, thinkers who are soon to be dinosaurs if I'm reading the younger folks right.
The exponent of today's morsel attributed it to Karl Rahner whom I have not read and who has been accused of being a heretic by those with traditional leanings. So whether this modern form of Arianism (strips Christ of his divinity) comes from Karl I cannot say.
It was a pleasant sounding idea: Anyone could have been Christ.
Do you see what that implies? That Christ was not a person of God who lowered himself and took the form of a slave and interrupted human history--all pre-planned from eternity-- but a mere man who happened to stumble upon, was selected by God or somehow in his life and death hit the nail on the head. If you listen and read carefully, you will encounter stuff like this in mainstream sources: Jesus discovers himself. Jesus takes faltering steps. Jesus regrets that he was so hard on somebody. Jesus doesn't want to save so and so at first, but then he changes his mind.
Do you see the false human pride, why some accuse the modern church of replacing a religion of God with a religion of Man? A man-only can do it.
And of course if Jesus is a creature-only, then his mother was just a regular gal, not the holiest of creatures eternally clean of sin. It's ironic that these Arian theologians, many of whom are short-haired feminists, by espousing a wholly human Christ, also strip Mary of her role as mediator. They remove woman from the economy of salvation and put her in the kitchen of irrelevance. They have made a guy thing of salvation.
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