Approaching Christ
How do we approach Christ?
Many found it difficult to approach Christ. It’s not a new problem. People found every creative way to get @ him. Pull his cloak, climb a tree, lower yourself through the roof. The last issue of Notre Dame Magazine reads: “Looking for Christianity’s Second Founder.”1 What? Genuinely, what? What about its first founder? This is the last day that I waste my time on stupid reflections from “authorities”. “Authority” means nothing. “Authority” means the same as “necessity”. It means a passive way of asserting something’s existence, which doesn’t assert anything except non-existence. There is only one authority. That is God. There is only one Word. That is Christ.
We don’t know who Christ is anymore. Even more, we don’t even know how to approach Christ anymore. That is why I will return to the great philosophers of being to get at the most basic definitions of the Human Being. In this five part series (still coming) I will explore one philosopher each time, and distill their primary take on being, then fit Christ into the picture. Because, remember, Christ is the light of the world. He can animate anything. Each philosopher, left to their own self-indulgent thought, has only one work worth studying. This work should have the urgency needed to distill the core of their thought into something readable and understandable. Christ animates these works, like he animates everything. I am holding philosophers to a high standard, the highest standard. We are drunk on language, we are gorged on icons. It is helpful to look to language for pictures of Christ. Until next time, peace.