tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110283631152387608.post5349293616906987226..comments2023-09-11T09:46:49.973-06:00Comments on The Brave Lass: Vaun Swanson's Gnostic ChristKamillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983400897547054097noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110283631152387608.post-4825546840530578442017-08-30T17:43:44.519-06:002017-08-30T17:43:44.519-06:00She is a kind, gentle person She is a kind, gentle person Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110283631152387608.post-35805160372542624372011-06-10T14:44:22.393-06:002011-06-10T14:44:22.393-06:00You should put a jacket on...You should put a jacket on...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110283631152387608.post-17339642652090643302011-06-06T14:14:51.818-06:002011-06-06T14:14:51.818-06:00This gnostic Christ used to adorn the entry to Ili...This gnostic Christ used to adorn the entry to Iliff School of Theology's library. It may still, I don't know. See, there are no theological ramifications of gender. It could just as well have been "Christa" as "Christ". Gal. 3:28, you know:<br /><br />http://itsmypulp.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/christa_2.jpg<br /><br />CaedmonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110283631152387608.post-8916890166596644312011-06-03T05:36:47.473-06:002011-06-03T05:36:47.473-06:00I'm not at all surprised that Ms. Swanson woul...I'm not at all surprised that Ms. Swanson would think Jesus no longer has a male body, for this is an almost ~necessary~ consequence of egalitarian anthropology: a gnostic Christology, particularly Gnostic in the shape that Swanson's is. As Brother Hutchens observed long ago (paraphrasing from memory): "Because of the nature of the incarnation, errors in anthropology lead straightway to errors in theology proper."<br /><br />Thus far, I've not run across one of the "professionals" among egals (seminary profs, the high priests of evangelical religion) expressing this Gnostic error with the refreshing candor and clarity that Swanson does. I suppose one's repudiation of orthodoxy has to move sufficiently east of Eden before one denies this or that feature of Eden itself. For example, Rob Bell's repudiation of Jesus' teaching on Hell. <br /><br />But, just wait (and, I predict, now, that if my lifetime is at least as long as statistics would forecast, I'll see this in my lifetime), one or more evangelical muckety-mucks in some august chair of evangelical learning will insist that divine justice leads us to conclude that Jesus laid aside his maleness once his "work on earth" was completed. Of course, at that point they will no longer worship the Jesus of the Bible, but a grotesque idol wrought by their own twisted hearts.Fr. Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05583524465037937508noreply@blogger.com