Found this from Karl Barth in a quote from a book entitled Christmas posted by blogger ajmoyse : “The man who is God’s own Word, does not send forth His radiant light from afar, encountering the “darkness” of other men as a king, hero or sage; but the Light that “shines in the darkness” is an ordinary man and [...]
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The test of the Ten-thousand Days
Posted in The Incarnation, tagged Christ, Christmas, Incarnation, Jesus, theology on December 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What I like to see in the Christmas story is a divine lord who has donned our own messy and precarious humanity in the trauma of childbirth and family. Here at the beginning he embarks upon the trial of a full humanity – what I am here calling the test of the ten-thousand days* – a test [...]
