Jesus and interesting Heresies
The Way started up again this week. Under the title "Who is Jesus", we talked about the tension between the means we have of knowing about Jesus and the difference between that and knowing God in some connected, spiritual, living sense. It’s probably impossible to have the knowing without the knowing about, but it’s very easy to get lost in knowing about and lose connection with the knowing. We also thought about reading scripture and the problem of projection; and about what sense we make of the relationship between Jesus in history and the Christ we believe in now.
The Way meets again on October 23rd, and Andrew will be starting off a session on "Decisions, Decisions (or, What would Jesus do?)". This is normally only for Robinson members; anyone else needs to ask me in advance whether we have room for guests.
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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