Today was the feast of Christ the King. But as Ray pointed out, the message is: "My kingdom is not of this world."
Tonight I watched (cursorily) a program on Charles Darwin and the controversy that he stirred up with the publication of "The Origin of the Species" (150 years ago?) 24th Nov 1859?)
We take it so much for granted these days. I am so aware of the personalities of the non humans around me here in Burra that I forget that sense that homo sapiens is something else, not quite "natural"; certainly not descended from apes!
Did that christian sense that our species is so special stop us from recognising god's love for the whole creation? Did demolishing that allow us to read the scriptures with new eyes and see a much larger "god"? A much larger saviour....
This evening, I was thinking it was a liberation of the church from the Constantinian capture of church into state power.
Demoting "man" from his pedestal (gender specific language is deliberate) allows us to see the Son of Man as enosh; the weak one who saves through the cross, not through state power; not through soldiers fighting for him.
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