Could you say more about Bonhoeffer's penultimate line, (I think) "[T]he relation between God and human being should be understood never as the relation between two things but [only as that] between two persons."
Is it a relation between two persons, though? Or are we now sounding Nestorian? Is there not only one person here: "Jesus Christ who is God" as you put it?
Love this, as always.
Could you say more about Bonhoeffer's penultimate line, (I think) "[T]he relation between God and human being should be understood never as the relation between two things but [only as that] between two persons."
Is it a relation between two persons, though? Or are we now sounding Nestorian? Is there not only one person here: "Jesus Christ who is God" as you put it?
That's a confusing line, I agree. But the two persons are Christ and me, not the Word and Jesus.
Thank you. As simple and beautiful as that.
"In Crete they claimed the tomb of Jove
In glen over which his eagles soar;
But thro' a peopled town ye rove
To Christ's low urn, where, nigh the door,
Settles the dove. So much the more
The contrast stamps the human God
Who dwelt among us, made abode
With us, and was of woman born;
Partook our bread, and thought no scorn
To share the humblest, homeliest hearth,
Shared all of man except the sin and mirth."
Herman Melville, Clarel, 3. "The Sepulcher"