Thursday, January 18, 2007

Rauschenbusch on getting Jesus wrong

"Imagine Jesus, with the dust of Galilee on his sandals, coming into the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople in the fifth century, listening to dizzy doctrinal definitions about the relation of the divine and human in his natures, watching priests performing the gorgeous acts of worship, reciting long and set prayers, and offering his own mystical body as a renewed sacrifice to their God! Has anyone ever been misunderstood as Jesus has?"
- Christianity and Social Crisis, 94.

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