This coming week is a mixture of visiting friends, walking the east cost beaches and coastlines, having meals with other friends, reading a couple of saved-up books that you want to read with minimum interruptions, cooking and sharing a couple of our favourite meals, and doing a quality check on several of our favourite coffee / home-baking haunts. So no blogging this week till Friday, or even Saturday. Which is just another way of saying we’re having our Easter break.
But as a thought for the week following Easter, some words from James Denney, from an unpublished paper on The Gospel of Paul. They express Denney’s Colossian view of Christ, an understanding of Christ so radically renovating for the believing mind, that it required an entirely different worldview:
[Christ is] the last reality in the universe, the ens realissimum, the ultimate truth through which and by relation to which all things must be defined and understood…
The presence of God in Christ is the primary certainty; and that certainty carries with it for him the requirement of a specifically Christian view of the universe. Paul would not be true to Christ, as Christ had revealed Himself to him in experience, unless he had the courage to Christianise all his thoughts of God and the world…
He is not directly deifying Christ, he is Christianising the universe…he is casting upon all creation and redemption the steadfast and unwavering light of the divine presence of which he was assured in Christ.
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