Thursday 11 September 2014

Newsletter for 13/14 September - Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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What are these Christians about, exalting an instrument of torture?

  •     First, we rejoice that something so terrible should have been transformed into a means of redemption for the whole human race.
  •     Second, we remind ourselves of the fact that Christianity is not an abstract and spiritual religion. It springs from God’s direct intervention in the affairs of the world, a real historical event involving real people and, in the end, a real execution on a real cross.
We may theorise and theologise all we like; but all our theorisings and theologisings are nothing without the history on which they are based. Take away that history – take away the Cross – and Christianity is nonsense.