http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/08/04/quote-day-224/ I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth. Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:34:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/08/04/quote-day-224/comment-page-1/#comment-86328 Fr Richard Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:49:02 +0000 http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/?p=26311#comment-86328 I think this quote well illustrates the power of the Christian religion: Jesus can be to each what each wants him to be. Here we see him bearing his wounds – the fact these are physical wounds is of little concern to the author – for him, the image of a public display of woundedness is transposed and confined to his own interpretation (and need?) of bearing one’s mental and emotional wounds publically. It is an intensely personal reading – and one I consider flawed, imposing on the scant narratives we have concerning Jesus the man, meanings which I suspect are more the necessary invention of the author than anything gleaned from Scripture. Jesus can be a personal friend, psychiatrists, counsellor, warrior, captain, savour, moralist, a fighter for social justice, a politician or the Right or of the Left. We each see something slightly different: a reflection of our needs or the Real person of Jesus?

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