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God Does Not Want to be Everything (Pt 4)

God Does Not Want to be Everything (Pt 4)

notes on an apophatic anthropology and the theology of ordination

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Artwork by Jacob de Wit (1695–1754) titled Figure studies for Moses Selecting the Seventy Elders (recto & verso), 1735, Brush with black and gray washes on paper, 220 by 181 mm., Inscribed '6' '52' '24' recto; signed, dated & inscribed '1735' verso
Jacob de Wit | Figure Studies for Moses Selecting the Seventy Elders | 1735

Hide Me Behind the Cross: Ordination as a Sacrament of Anonymity

“O God, cover me in the blood, hide me behind the cross so Jesus is exalted, Jesus alone.”
Bishop G.E. Patterson

I argued in the previous posts (pt 1, pt 2, pt 3) that the Moses of Numbers 11 is an icon of Christ an…

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