Thursday 30 December 2010

Tom Wright in a sermon in 2006 quotes some Paul:
For in him all the Fullness was glad to dwell
and through him to reconcile all to himself,
making peace through the blood of his cross,
through him - yes, things on the earth,
and also the things in the heavens.

and then says:
St Paul, in writing or quoting this astonishing and very early piece of poetic theology, is claiming for Jesus what the ancient Jewish wisdom writers claimed for the figure of Wisdom - the wisdom by which the world was made, the wisdom you need to be a fully alive human being, the wisdom by which the living God inhabits his world, breathes into it his own warm life, and brings about within it the fulfilment of his strange and beautiful purposes.

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