Tuesday, May 5 – Christus Victor
Glenn M. Miller, “Christus Victor,” The Great Irruption: Christ’s Work on the Cross
This week we explore one final explanation of Jesus' work on the cross: that his death defeated the evil powers of the world. The reading is also the final installation in Glenn Miller's study. It is very very interesting, but you won't get the same effect if you just read around--between now and Tuesday, try to get all the way through it. I'm halfway done, and I'm learning a lot!
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Audio lectures are available at Miller site.
As I reflect on our discussion, I think a few things ring true for me that may or may not be relevant.
However we envision systemic evil and individual evil, Jesus faced it throughout his life and consistently refrained from allowing it to dictate his life. He may have died at the hands of principalities, but through the hope of resurrection, others sought to overcome those principalities in the spirit of Jesus.
I listened to a sermon over the weekend from Holy Week (I'm a few weeks behind in my podcasts). It dealt with things we can't avoid (Progressive Christian Voice Blog). I think it deals with evil and theodicy in an interesting manner that somehow connected last week and this week's grad study discussions nicely.
Here is a good resource for canonical and interesting non-canonical writings.
As an added bonus to reading for next week, I recommend the very short Chapter 9 of the Didache on the Early Christian Writings web site to which I linked in the above post.
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