tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post5736242064906456218..comments2023-11-03T06:26:00.486-07:00Comments on Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Saving Paradise: an Easter sermonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-8368991566959651802009-05-06T09:21:00.000-07:002009-05-06T09:21:00.000-07:00I am so sorry to do this but........
I have e...I am so sorry to do this but........<br /><br /> I have enormous sympathy for the authors, their motives and their boundless enthusiasm for what appears to them to be a remarkable discovery that they wish to communicate to their readers. <br /><br /> Their conclusion that the redemption of both the Christian and Christianity may be attained by a return to the original propositions of the early church which they conclude are sweeping boundless inclusive redemption and a path of love and rebirth into paradise demonstrated by a living pastoral Christ is both as appealing and meritorious as it is demonstrably false.<br /><br /> They state without equivocation that there are no images of Christ’s death until one thousand years after his crucifixion. This is untrue.<br /><br /> Christ crucified and the Pieta are not central icons of church furnishing until after the eight century because they were prohibited by law and don’t appear until after the late fourth century because crucifixion was still being practiced and Christ’s manner of death was a basis for ridiculing early Christians. <br /><br /> Images of Christ crucified and dead were common however in reliquary art jewelry and illumination.<br /><br />Those images that were exempt from the prohibitions of the iconoclast patriarchs of the late roman byzantine and early medieval church, are described by the authors as “a shepherd, a teacher, a healer, an enthroned god; he is an infant, a youth, and a bearded elder”<br /><br />This is deliberately misleading he is in fact portrayed specifically as:<br /><br />Christ Panocrator=Manifest God as Trinity, consubstantial and undivided, denied by the Arian Heresy.<br /><br />Christos Anesti=Christ as retroactive redeemer and tomb breaker denied by the Docetist Heresy.<br /><br />Theophany= manifest God as Trinity, consubstantial and undivided, denied by the Arian Heresy.<br /><br />The Christ of the Theotokon=Christ manifest as God from birth by the “god bearer” denied by the Nestorian Heresy<br /><br />Dormition=Sanctity of the God bearer denied by the Nestorian Heresy<br /><br /><br />Unfortunately for the authors, what their experience is analogous to, is an individual, with no other reference points, attempting to describe the Third Reich based on colorful propaganda posters and the films of Leni Riefenstahl.<br /><br />It is a deeply embarrassing and sad book because the author’s motives are so good and yet their conclusions so crushingly and glaringly wrong .Prometheusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-54135537039987519592009-04-14T07:51:00.000-07:002009-04-14T07:51:00.000-07:00I'm glad it grabbed you, LE. I was not expecting ...I'm glad it grabbed you, LE. I was not expecting it to be so well-received by the congregation, but I had tons of positive comments and NO criticisms (yet, it's only Tuesday!). In fact, one person who often offers a constructive critique hugged me afterwards and said thanks. I was surprised and pleased, because the sermon had a hard time being born.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-60359562298444017082009-04-14T07:42:00.000-07:002009-04-14T07:42:00.000-07:00I've read this sermon several times since you've p...I've read this sermon several times since you've posted this, Ms. Kitty. It keeps drawing me back! This must have been even more powerful in person. (How funny, the word verification is "unifi.")Lizard Eaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04506056116023122414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-2384935797019963232009-04-13T09:15:00.000-07:002009-04-13T09:15:00.000-07:00Artistically, at least. Of course, the various ch...Artistically, at least. Of course, the various church councils were steadily imposing theologies and anathematizing dissenters.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-40350004054111907562009-04-13T08:16:00.000-07:002009-04-13T08:16:00.000-07:00Wow. I'm amazed at the thought of the first 1,000 ...Wow. I'm amazed at the thought of the first 1,000 years of the church having been so very different from the last 1,000. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for a wonderful sermon, Ms. K. Hope your Easter was a blessed one.Miss Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13210249894351503887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-80138841766925447012009-04-12T18:49:00.000-07:002009-04-12T18:49:00.000-07:00Thanks, Robin, Max, Loosy, and Lily appreciate you...Thanks, Robin, Max, Loosy, and Lily appreciate your kind wishes.Lilylouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02328027965155428624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-6355547100868880602009-04-12T18:34:00.000-07:002009-04-12T18:34:00.000-07:00Happy Easter Of Your Understanding Ms. Kitty. Pass...Happy Easter Of Your Understanding Ms. Kitty. <BR/><BR/>Pass it on to the cats too. ;-)Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.com