Indescribable Christ?

John Smith · 07 Feb 2009, 00:07 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: jsmith2627 at att.net (John Smith)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:07:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Indescribable Christ?
In-Reply-To: <003e01c988b3$a4e89800$35d24a0c@rclackey>
Message-ID: <373173.22564.qm at web180002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
From: Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Indescribable Christ?
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:35 PM

This subject is tiresome and has been done to death over the years, and
leads nowhere. People are talking past each other, as ever. I should stay
out of it. But I will make an appeal to the text.

At issue here is whether or not Severian is in any meaningful sense a
manifestation of the Christ, rather than someone who merely has Christ-like,
or Christic (as I believe someone here once termed it) qualities. The
difference is unimportant to some, but to Christians (which I am not) it is
paramount.

Amen.  I disagee only with "to Christians it is paramount."  Most Christians are concerned with the message of Christ, not hair-splitting theological arguments.

Best wishes,
Jack

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