Friday, April 6, 2012

Good Friday - Christ died for us

...Christ died for us in order to expose our world of violence for what it is --a world that stands under God's judgement, a word based on coercion and leading to death. ...

...Christ died for us in order to enter into utmost solidarity with us as victims of violence and to mediate God's forgiveness to us a perpetrators of violence. ...

...Christ died for us in order to open a new future for a new humanity in the midst of our violent world. ...


...The cross of Christ is greater than the murderous passions of our world. that God's glory can and does shine even in the deepest night of human savagery, that God's free forgiveness is greater than our paralyzing recognition of quilt, that God's way of life is greater than our way of death. ...



Daniel Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding, Violence and the Cross p160

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