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Rehabilitating Christology

March 25, 2009 by Tripp Fuller 1 Comment

There is hardly anything as depressing as a progressive Christian who has a hard time saying anything about Jesus.  Not just theologians or pastors but just any one who ventures to think about Jesus after biblical criticism in a historical situation that is religiously pluralistic with plenty of visible scars of Jesus followers doing damage to others in Christ’s name has trouble getting started.  This video is a pretty fun way of examining how you can ratchet up your Jesus-Talk and I would be interested in hearing where the HBC Deacaons jump of the Christological train Clayton is describing.

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  1. Cassandra says:
    March 26, 2009 at 4:27 am

    Thank you for this creative discussion of the Christology! This is a topic that has been troubling me lately, as well, and I’ve just written two blog posts about it (“Priests, Women, and Hermaphrodites” and, more recently, “Holy Mary, Mother of God”). I have never been comfortable calling Jesus a good teacher and leaving it at that, but the Christology is troubling for me because of the insidious ways intolerance is woven into salvation via sexuality, so as a progressive (emerging?) Christian, I’m working out a theology that I can get excited about in response to this.

    In my many “field trips” to churches and conversations with other Christians, I come across arguments that the humanity of Jesus is tied into his masculinity in such a way that people (usually implicitly, though my blogs above are about an explicit version of the argument) deny the full humanity of particularly people whose sexuality isn’t easily boxed into “male” and “female”…and, in a further implicit way, deny the full humanity of women, as well.

    Now, I think there are ways to look at the Christology that don’t require defining humanity in terms of sexuality in such a negative way. Luce Irigiray and other feminists have written creatively at length in response, and queer theology is a growing movement in response, too. So this is a very exciting way of looking at the Christology, I think, that deserves a shout-out precisely BECAUSE we need Jesus to be “taken up” with God, for God to be changed…because if God needs a “full human being” to be taken up into God’s presence…if God needs a PERFECT human being to be taken up into his presence, what would that “perfection” look like, and what would we use to define it?

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