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by Herman Ridderbos
GODĺS RECONCILING ACTIVITY
Along with the concept of justification, the new relationship to God accomplished in Christĺs death and resurrection is expressed in another way. The concept of reconciliation also plays an important part in Paulĺs epistles. It appears in more than one place as the parallel and equivalent of justification. So, for example, in Romans 5:9, 10, where ôjustified by his [Christĺs] bloodö is paralleled by ôreconciled by his death,ö just as in 2 Corinthians 3:9 and 5:18 the ôministration of righteousnessö and the ôministration of reconciliationö are alternately spoken of. Likewise in 2 Corinthians 5:18ff. it is said in so many words that Godĺs reconciling act with respect to the world consists in his ônot imputing unto them their trespasses.ö Other pronouncements confirm this equation.1
There is no warrant for wishing to subordinate one of these two concepts to the other. One could perhaps say that reconciliation as peace with God is the consequence of justification (Rom. 5:1). But then one is speaking of the condition of reconciliation, which is the result of the reconciling activity of God. Conversely, one can just as well speak of righteousness as the new reconciled relationship with God that has been effected by the justifying act of God. Better than making excessively sharp delimitations is the insight that we are dealing here with two concepts from different spheres of thought and life. Whereas ôto justifyö is a religious-forensic concept that is highly typical of the basic eschatological structure of Paulĺs preaching, ôreconciliationö (in the sense of katallage) has a more general, less qualified meaning in theological parlance. It originates from the social-societal sphere (cf. 1 Cor. 7: 11), and speaks in general of the restoration of the right relationship between two parties. In the pronouncements of Paul it is often placed over against ôenmity,ö ôalienationö (Rom. 5:10; Eph. 2: 14ff.; Col. 1:22), just as in a positive sense it has the meaning of ôpeaceö (cf. Rom. 5:1, 10; Eph. 2:l5ff.; Col. 1:2011.).
When we look more closely at these pronouncements relating to reconciliation, it can be ascertained that this reconciliation is qualified above all by the fact that God is its Author and Initiator. This is put very emphatically in the great ôreconciliation pericopeĺĺ of 2 Corinthians 5: 18-21: ôAnd all this is from God, who through Christ has reconciled us to himself and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is,2 that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.ö Conversely, mention is made of the churchĺs being reconciled (Rom. 5:10), and believers are admonished by the word of reconciliation to let themselves be reconciled to God; reconciliation can therefore stand over against ôrejectionö (by God) (Rom. 11:15), and to the apostles has been entrusted the ministry (dispensation, distribution) of reconciliation (diakonia tes katallages). The pronouncements in Colossians and Ephesians say essentially the same thing.3 There Christ appears as the Reconciler, who reconciles Jews and gentiles, indeed through whom God reconciles ôall thingsö to himself (Eph. 2:16; Col. 1:20, 22). In all this, entirely in harmony with the great fundamental motif of Paulĺs preaching, reconciliation is the work of redemption going out from God in Christ to the world,4 for the removal of ôenmity,ö for the restoration of ôpeace.ö
In the second place, for insight into the Pauline idea of reconciliation it is again of paramount importance to take full account of the eschatological character of Paulĺs preaching. As restoration of the right relationship between God and the world reconciliation of course also has reference to the disposition of man. Yet neither the point of departure nor the real thrust of the Pauline pronouncements on reconciliation is situated here. With reconciliation, being reconciled, peace, it is primarily a matter of removing that which stands in the way of the right relationship between God and (in the most comprehensive sense of the word) the world; in other words, of the eschatological restoration of all things. This is clearly evident from the context of the reconciliation pronouncements in 2 Corinthians 5. Reconciliation constitutes the foundation of the new creation, of the fact that the old has passed away, that the new has come (2 Cor. 5:17, 18), of the ônowö of the day of salvation and of the acceptable time (2 Cor. 6:2). This objective eschatological character of reconciliation may be still more sharply distinguished in the pronouncement of Colossians 1:20, where it is said that God through Christ reconciles all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. In connection with ôall things,ö as appears from the context, one is to think of all that is in heaven and on earth, in particular of the power that the spirit world has obtained over the world of men fallen away from God and the bad relationship into which the world has thereby come to stand over against God. When it is said here that God through Christ has again reconciled ôall thingsö to himself, what is meant is not the restoration of the right disposition5 (e.g., among the apostate spirits), but rather of the divine government over all, through the fact, among other things, that the authority of the powers that have set themselves against God has been taken away and through Christ they have been subjected to God. With reconciliation it is a question here, therefore, of the eschatological pacification, which is also expressed by the words that follow in Colossians 1:20, that God has thus made peace through the blood of Christĺs cross. To be sure, some6 have held the view that this ôobjectiveö conception of ôreconcileö must be frustrated precisely by this element of peace making. But the idea of peace, which for Paul repeatedly denotes the result of reconciliation, is not in conflict with such a conception of reconciliation, but rather forms its confirmation. For in Paul (as in the whole of the Scripture) ôpeaceö refers not only or in the first place to disposition, but is the denotation of the all-embracing gift of salvation, the condition of shalom, which God will again bring to unrestricted dominion. It is the peace that is to reign when ôthe God of peace will soon crush Satan under the feetö of his people (Rom. 16:20). It consists therefore as much in the pacification of the powers hostile to God as in the restoration of peace between Jews and Gentiles, the peace of the Messianic kingdom, which is represented by Christ (ôHe is our peaceö) because he has reconciled the enmity between the two through his cross (Eph. 2:14ff.), and which stands in contrast to the wrath, indignation, tribulation, and anguish of the eschatological divine judgment (Rom. 2:9, 10).
It is clear in addition, however, that the reconciling activity of God does not merely have reference to human disposition, but embraces much more.9 Man in his sin is an ôenemy of Godö not only in the active but also in the passive sense of the word. The apostle speaks very clearly to that effect, for example, in Romans 11:28, where the Jews are successively called ôenemies [of God] for your sakeö and ôbeloved [of God] for the fathersĺ sake.ö From the parallel it follows that ôenemies of Godö must here have a passive meaning. And the same thing undoubtedly applies to the ôreconciliationö pronouncement in Romans 5:10: ôfor if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God Even if one chooses to assume that ôenemiesö here describes a reciprocal relationship,10 the context clearly indicates that the abrogation of this enmity through reconciliation is the same as being delivered from Godĺs wrath, being acquitted of sin and guilt, and thus describes not only the relation in which man stands toward God,11 but also that in which God stands toward man.12
What Paul means by reconciliation, when he speaks of the restoration of the relationship between God and (the world of) men, can best be understood by starting from justification, of which, as we have seen, it appears as the parallel. In this reconciliation it is a matter first of all of the abrogation of manĺs relationship of guilt before God, of his sin not being imputed to him (2 Cor. 5:19). In that sense reconciliation is above all a gift that man ôreceivesö by grace (Rom. 5:11), the ground for which, in the same manner as that of his justification, is in Christ Ś in his death (Rom. 5:10), in his cross (Eph. 2:16), in the body of his flesh through death (Cob. 1:22). So far is Paul from any such suggestion as that reconciliation consists only in the removal of manĺs enmity toward God. Precisely as an act of God in Christĺs death it is antecedent to all human Umstiminung, it took place without us and for us ôwhen we were yet enemiesö (Rom. 5:10), it consists above all in the effecting of peace as the fruit of justification (Rom. 5:1), and thus prepares the way to receiving a share in the new creation, the new things, peace as the all-embracing condition of salvation.
All the rest results from this. The reconciliation of which Paul speaks also consists, just as justification and in a still more explicit sense, in what is realized in the life of men from this restoration of fellowship. The ôword of reconciliationö goes out to them that they should ôletö themselves be reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:20), that is, that from their side, too, they should enter into that reconciled relationship; and thus instead of living as unreconciled and enemies under the wrath of God, should accept the peace and love of God as a gift and power, and be encompassed, governed, and led by them. Here again it is ôpeaceö that fills up and explains the Pauline concept of reconciliation. For this peace is not only a denotation of the new relationship in which those who are justified and reconciled may stand toward God (Rom. 5:1), but also of the inner peace of the heart that pervades the whole man in all his doings (Rom. 15:13), and, surpassing all understanding, keeps and restrains the hearts and minds of believers (Phil. 4:7), and as arbiter gives judgment in their hearts when they find themselves in uncertainty or inner discord (Col. 3:15; cf. 2 Thess. 3:16).
Thus reconciliation empties itself into the whole of tile Christian life, is its foundation and summation, just as the ôministration of reconciliationö coincides on the one hand with the ôministration of righteousness,ö and on the other with the ôministration of the Spiritö (2 Cor. 5:18; 3:8, 9).
CHRISTĺS DEATH AS ATONEMENT.
As justification by faith is grounded in the death of Christ, so too in the pronouncements on reconciliation the death of Christ is brought up again and again as the foundation on which or the way in which this reconciliation takes place. Thus it is said in Romans 5:10 that when we were (yet) enemies, we were reconciled through the death of Godĺs Son. And in Ephesians and Colossians we meet with a whole series of expressions that establish the connection between Christĺs death and the peace and reconciliation wrought by him: ôIn Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christö (Eph. 2:13); ôfor he is our peace, . . . having abolished in [or through] his flesh the enmityö (v. 14), ô. . . that he might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereon [therein].ö And in Colossians 1:20 it is said that God through Christ has reconciled all things, ômaking peace through the blood of his cross.ö.. . ôAnd you . . . he has now reconciled in the body of his flesh through deathö (v. 22). All this places before us the question as to what significance must be ascribed to tile suffering and death of Christ in the whole of the reconciling activity of God.
In our discussion of the significance of Christĺs death as the ground for justification13 we confined ourselves to pointing out the general forensic meaning of Christĺs death: in Christ God shows his vindicatory righteousness in the present time and thus justifies those who have faith in Jesus (Rom. 3:25, 26). The apostle also says in that context, however, that ôGod made him openly to be a means of propitiation in his bloodö (Rom. 3:25), just as in Romans 5:9, as a parallel of ôreconciled by his deathö cited above, there is mention of being ôjustified by his blood.ö It is clear that this terminology, however closely connected it is with the forensic doctrine of justification, does not simply flow out of it, and, as appears from the foregoing, is likewise bound up with the concept of reconciliation. Thus, in discussing the doctrine of reconciliation, that is, of the restoration taken in a wider sense of the broken relationship between God and the world, there is reason to go further into the complex of pronouncements that make this restoration rest on the passion and death of Christ. Moreover, at the same time the question can be discussed Ś a question that has frequently been raised in the history of Pauline studies14 Ś as to what connection is made in his proclamation between the reconciliation that goes forth from God to the world and the necessity of the death of Christ.
What is meant in Romans 5:9, 10 by ôjustified by his bloodö and ôreconciled by the death of his Sonö can best be elucidated by the pronouncement in Romans 3:25, with which these expressions are linked, that God ômade [Christ] openly to be a means of propitiation in his blood.ö For here the significance of the words ôinö or ôbyö his blood is explained by the combination with the idea hilasterion, means of propitiation.15 The idea employed here (ôto propitiateö Ś and the group of words16 to which it belongs), in contrast to the concept katallage17 that has been dealt with so far, occurs only once in Paul and has its background in a complex of ideas wholly its own. While the concept katallage (reconciliation) originates in the social-societal sphere, hilasterion (means of propitiation) is derived from the cultus, particularly from the propitiatory sacrifice that took place there. Thus, Christĺs death is qualified by the designation ômeans of propitiationö as a propitiatory sacrifice, and the accompanying phrase ô[consisting] in his bloodö has materially the meaning of ôpropitiatory blood.ö The related expressions in Romans 5:9 are to be understood in the same sense and say that justification has been accomplished by his propitiatory blood and reconciliation by his propitiatory death.
That the concept ôto propitiate,ö in the form of ômeans of propitiation,ö occurs only once in Paul does not mean that the thought it expresses is absent elsewhere in his epistles. Apart from what has already been said with respect to Romans 5:9 and 10, a few other pronouncements are to be pointed out here as well, which, although in another context than the present one, speak of Christĺs death as a sacrificial death. Thus in 1 Corinthians 5:7, where in reference to Old Testament passages it is said: ôfor our paschal lamb has also been slaughtered (etythe), even Christ.ö The same holds for the words of the Lordĺs Supper quoted by Paul in 1 Corinthians 11:25: ôThis cup is the New Covenant in my blood.ö Finally, in Ephesians 5:2 where, likewise referring to traditional expressions, it is said that ôChrist gave himself up for us as an offering and a sacrifice (prosphoran kai thysian) for a fragrant odor to God.ö In all these places not only is sacrificial terminology employed, but materially there is mention of Christĺs death as a propitiatory death. This after all was the significance both of the Passover sacrifice and of the covenant sacrifice, which is spoken of in 1 Corinthians 11:25 (cf. Exod. 12:7, 13; 24:6-8). The words of Ephesians 5:2, as appears from the ôfor us,ö also point to the element of atonement.18 To these then are still to be added those passages in which there is mention of Christĺs blood in the sense of propitiatory blood. Besides those places (Rom. 3:25; 5:9) already discussed, 1 Corinthians 10:16; 11:25ff. are to be mentioned as such (in direct connection with the words of the Lordĺs Supper19). But the pronouncements on reconciliation in Ephesians 2 and Colossians 1 are also to be cited to this end, at least so far as mention is there made of peace, and reconciliation ôthrough the blood of Christö and ôthrough the blood of his crossö (Eph. 2:13; Col. 1:20). Finally, the idea of the propitiatory sacrifice underlies those pronouncements in which Jesus is denoted as the one who died ôfor usö or ôfor our sinsö (cf. Rom. 5:6, 8; 14:15; 1 Cor. 15:3; 2 Cor. 5:14; 1 Thess. 5:10, et al.).20
Now, it has often been supposed that in Paulĺs doctrine of justification and reconciliation the idea of Christĺs death as a propitiatory sacrifice is not in the literal sense under discussion. The literal sense consists surely in the fact that the propitiatory sacrifice enters in substitutionally between the holy God and sinful man, because the life given up in the sacrifice through the attendant shedding of blood covers sin before the face of God and in this way atones.21 A ômetaphorical garmentö has been spoken of here, with which no cultic ideas are said to have been connected,22 and it has been posited that Paul spoke only in a figurative, metaphorical sense of Christĺs death as sacrifice Ś among other things, because he makes equally straightforward and ôfreeö use of the sacrificial figures when he speaks of his own death.23 Similarly, it has frequently been contended that in Paul the substitutionary character of Christĺs death stands entirely in the background24 or is even entirely missing.25 In the same line is the assertion of others that the reconciling passion and death of Christ are proclaimed only as divine activity, not as an ôaccomplishment of Christö over against God, and that tile necessity or possibility of this activity is not reflected on.26
But with impartial exegesis there can be no doubt that in the most literal sense of the word Paul speaks of Christĺs death as a propitiatory death. What is decisive here, to be sure, is not that he uses the word ôsacrifice,ö which in itself admits of all sorts of meanings, but the sense he attaches to it. And as to that there remains no uncertainty whatever, particularly in the light of Romans 3:25, 26. Christ is the means of propitiation appointed by God to the manifestation of his deferred righteousness. In Christĺs death the righteousness of God thus reveals itself in the demanding and vindicatory sense of the word. His blood as atoning blood covers the sin which God until now had passed over, when as yet he kept back the judgment. All that men wish to detract from the real character of Christĺs propitiatory death signifies a devaluation of the language of Romans 3:25 and 26, which is unmistakable in its clarity.
But the passages where in so many words Jesus is called the sacrificial lamb and his blood the blood of the covenant also contradict the assertion that sacrifice is here spoken of only in a figurative sense. ôOur passover [lamb] has been sacrificed, even Christö (1 Cor. 5:7) does not have in view only the voluntariness of Christĺs death. Rather, the objective and passive stand in the foreground here. Christĺs death is the necessary condition for the life of his own. In that sense he is also ôourö paschal lamb. Similarly, his blood is the condition of the New Covenant (1 Cor. 11:25). The whole description of the cup in the Lordĺs Supper as ôthe New Covenant in my bloodö is robbed of its deepest meaning when the idea of sacrifice is not taken here in its proper sense, that is, when the blood is not understood as the means by which the reconciliation between God and his people is accomplished and which is necessary for the forgiveness of sins and the new fellowship (Jer. 31:31ff.).27
Entirely in harmony with this is the idea of the substitutionary character of Christĺs death on the cross, as that recurs time and again in Paulĺs epistles, when it is said that Christ ôdied for our sinsö (1 Cor. 15:3; 2 Cor. 5:14); or ôdied for usö and ôgave himself up for our sinsö (Rom. 5:6, 8; 14:15; 1 Thess. 5:10; Rom. 4:25; 8:32; Gal. 1:4; 2:20). To be sure, the expression ôfor usö in itself does not yet signify ôin our placeö; it indicates that the death of Christ has taken place ôin our favor.ö Nevertheless, the substitutionary significance of these expressions cannot be doubted. And it is corroborated by such expressions as that in 2 Corinthians 5:21: God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us; cf. Romans 8:3 and Galatians 3:13, where it is said that Christ has become a curse for us. In these passages the thought of the substitutionary (atoning) sacrifice is unmistakable, a thought that is enunciated in almost so many words when the phrase ôOne died for allö is explained by the words, ôso then all have diedö (2 Cor. 5:14). Even if one could give certain passages taken by themselves another sense, the whole complex of the pronouncements mentioned above can allow no doubt to remain as to the ôatoning,ö substitutionary character of Jesusĺ death,28 and every effort to detract from it readily does wrong to the most fundamental segments of Paulĺs gospel. Likewise the fact that reconciliation as the restoration of the broken relationship between God and the world has been brought about by God and that he therefore is the Author and Initiator of reconciliation is in no respect whatever in conflict with the idea of the propitiatory sacrifice that must cover and atone for sin before God. Not only does God turn in Christ to the world in order to effect reconciliation (katallage), but Christ also stands in the place of men to offer himself up to God, to expiate (hilasmos) the sin of his people. In his death Christ represents God with men, but in it he also represents men with God (1 Tim. 2:5). God demonstrates his love toward us in the death of Christ (Rom. 5:8); he has delivered him up for us all (Rom. 8:32). But at the same time Christĺs obedience is unto death on the cross (Phil. 2:8), the act of the one man, through whom the many are justified (Rom. 5:18, 19). The line not only runs from above downward, but in Christ it turns back to God. Here there is indeed a double movement to be spoken of in the reconciling work of Christ, in which is implicit the mystery of reconciliation.
This is not to be taken, however, in such a way that we have to do here with an unsolvable dialectic. For there is a clear connection between the reconciliation going forth from God and Christĺs giving up of himself as a means of propitiation in order to cover the sin of the people before God. But the latter is subordinate to the former, and not the reverse. For the same God with whom the restoration of the broken fellowship originates and who has summoned men to be reconciled to him (katallage; 2 Cor. 5:18ff.) is also the one who has instituted the order of ôpropitiationö (hilasmos) by the death of Christ. By sending his own Son Ś and that for the sake of sin (namely, in order to cause it to be atoned for) Ś he condemned sin in the (that is, in Christĺs) flesh (Rom. 8:3). And it is he himself who on the cross, before the eyes of all,29 has made and designated Christ to be a means of propitiation (Rom. 3:25). Therefore every representation as though an Umstimrnung were brought about in God by the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ and as though his wrath were only to be ôappeasedö in the sacrifice of Christ, is completely contrary to the Pauline gospel. It is divine love that evidences itself in the death of Christ and which to that end did not spare his own Son (Rom. 5:8; 8:32), but delivered him up for us all. But the depth of this love only becomes manifest in all its grandeur when, in the holy order of the justice appointed by God, Christ is made to be sin and delivers himself up as the atoning sacrifice to cover the sin of the world before the face of God.30
Finally, one can still ask the question as to the manner in which the idea of the substitutionary, atoning character of Christĺs death is integrated into the whole of Paulĺs eschatological preaching. Is there an intrinsic connection between this idea of reconciliation and the basic structures of Paulĺs preaching, as these have been pointed out in the foregoing? Some are of the opinion that the idea of Christĺs death as propitiatory death does not represent the characteristic feature of Paulĺs view, and that in the formulations in question: died for our sins, etc., he follows the tradition (probably originating with the primitive church and in any case propagated in Hellenistic Christianity).31
In this conception there is certainly this truth, that, as we have seen, the idea ôto propitiateö occurs only once in Paul, and that when he speaks elsewhere in an explicit sense of the sacrifice of Christ (1 Cor. 5:7; 11:25; Eph. 5:2) he apparently employs traditional formulations and expressions. Nor is one able to say that the doctrine of reconciliation in the sense of the propitiatory sacrifice is deliberately or expressly unfolded in his epistles, as is the case, for example, with the theme of justification and in part with that of reconciliation (in the sense of katallage). This is not to say that for Paul the idea of propitiation does not occupy an important place. Materially it is found so frequently that one must consider it as pertaining to the central content of the Pauline kerygma.32 But its significance is more often presupposed than expressly brought up for discussion. And in the few times the sacrifice of Christ is spoken of in so many words, the thought of propitiation still occurs indirectly, that is, in another context of thought (cf. 1 Cor. 5:7; 11:25; Eph. 5:2). It is in this circumstance, indeed, that one will have to look for the reason that certain theological currents, averse to this idea of reconciliation, have repeatedly supposed that it is to be met with in Paul merely in a figurative, symbolical sense. How much this last signifies a failure to appreciate the fundamental importance of reconciliation in Paul we have attempted to show above. But this does not alter the fact that it is more characteristic of the foundation than of the distinctive construction of Paulĺs gospel.
For insight into the relationship intended here the most important and conspicuous pronouncement is undoubtedly Romans 3:25. Here the idea of the propitiatory sacrifice is very directly linked with the doctrine of justification so characteristic of Paulĺs preaching. Here the absolutely unique eschatological significance of Christĺs death as atoning death clearly emerges. At the great turning point of the times God grants righteousness to everyone who believes, by grace, as a free gift. But the revelation of this righteousness given by God also bears the hallmark of an eschatological judicial verdict, in that it is attended by a manifestation of Godĺs vindicatory and demanding righteousness in the atoning death of Christ. That is also the significance of ôto set forth publicly as a means of propitiation.ö It is this decisive, central act of propitiation, executed before the eyes of heaven and earth, in which God himself, passing over all the sacrifices that had formerly been offered, provides the means of propitiation and places it in the midst of all. This is also the meaning of the ôonceö of the death of Christ, of which Romans 6:10 speaks; ôonceö is intended to say ôonce and for all,ö so as to distinguish it from all preceding sacrifices.33 It is ôthe testimony in its own timeö (1 Tim. 2:6), that is to say, the testimony that in the decisive moment goes forth from Christĺs self-surrender to the world and mankind. In this sense, therefore, the idea of Christĺs death as atoning death comprises one of the most essential definitions of Godĺs work of redemption in the fullness of the time.
Herman Ridderbos taught New Testament for many years at the Theological School of the Reforrmed churches of the Netherlands in Kampen. An editor of and weekly contributor to Gereformeerd Weekblad, he is the author of numerous books, including several commentaries in Dutch and English, and a comprehensive study of eschatology entitled The Coming of the Kingdom.
This article is taken from his work, Paul: An outline of His Theology, (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, MI, 1975)
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O Love ever burning and never extinguished caritas, my God, set me on fire.
– St. Augustine
Romantic tension is an essential plot device found in most any film, whether it is a romantic comedy, thriller, or action adventure. Consider Indy and Marion inRaiders of the Lost Ark. Rick and Ilsa inCasablanca. You've Got Mail's Joe and Kathleen. Or James Bond and his fling-of-the-moment in the latest 007 adventure. Romance is an integral part of the films we watch because moviemakers know it sells tickets. We want romance portrayed on the silver screen, just like we want it in real life. It's part of how we are wired. We long to pursue someone we admire or crave to have an admirer woo us. We yearn to go beyond ourselves and share something special with someone we are attracted to.
The concept of romance is usually reserved to describe a passionate relationship between a man and a woman. In the song "Wild Honey" [Lyrics] [iTunes], however, U2 spins convention upside down. Using romantic imagery, U2 explores the nature of God's untamed relationship that he'd like to have with you and I. Not only does "Wild Honey" cause you to revisit your understanding of what romance is, but also the very nature of God's love.
A Planet Full of Prudes
While romance is a hot ticket item at the multiplexes, this idea is quickly left behind as we walk through the doors of our church. In fact, I bet you've never heard a sermon from the pulpit on Sunday morning that used words like "ravishing", "untamed", or "romance" when describing God's interaction with the people he made. In spite of the fact that the scriptures paint a wilder picture, we've become a planet full of prudes when we think about our relationship to God. In our minds, God is powerful and holy. Someone to be revered, honored, obeyed. He is our savior, shelter, and strength. U2 speaks to this idea when they sing in "Wild Honey":
From the cruel sun
You were shelter
You were my shelter and my shade
These descriptions, mirroring Isaiah 25:4, are absolutely true. But they are insufficient by themselves. In fact, when we view God only as our holy, powerful protector, our relationship with him quickly becomes obligatory, much like a medieval serf paying homage to the powerful, but benevolent landowner king. Authors Brent Curtis and John Eldredge describe how this twisted view impacted their lives: "Our faith began to feel more like a series of problems that needed to be solved or principles that had to be mastered before we could finally enter into the abundant life promised us by Christ." When our view of God is purely as an authority figure, we dumb down the nature of his love for us. At best, his love becomes much like a grandfather's affection for his grandchild – sincere, warm, and protective, but never intimate. In fact, words that convey something stronger are considered inappropriate, deemed in poor taste. Intimacy is male-female stuff. God's love is all about devotion, honor, and respect. Julian of Norwich tells how this perspective skews our understanding of God's love: "Some of us believe that God is almighty and may do everything, and that he is all-wisdom and can do everything; but that he is all-love and wishes to do everything – there we stop short. It is this ignorance, it seems to me, that hinders most of God's lovers."
The Divine Romance
Because of our prudish nature in our relationship with God, a scan of the lyrics to "Wild Honey" causes most to conclude that Bono is singing about human romance. On the contrary, U2 is looking at the relationship between God and his people. They sing of a God who desires us and wants to do the kinds of things that lovers do – play, hang out, and simply be together. The first verse goes like this:
In the days
When we were swinging from the trees
I was a monkey
Stealing honey from a swarm of bees
I could taste
I could taste you even then
And I would chase you down the wind
Spoken from God's point of view, this verse depicts the world in a time before the sin of Adam and Eve, a time in which God could be playful and wild with his creation without any encumbrances between them. In his classic series The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis depicts Jesus Christ as a lion named Aslan. Aslan shows the same untamed affection to his faithful as U2 sings about in "Wild Honey." After Aslan is resurrected in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he says before playfully running off, "I feel my strength coming back to me. Oh, children, catch me if you can!" Main character Lucy never can decide whether playing with Aslan in this manner was "more like playing with a thunderstorm or playing with a kitten." In Prince Caspian, Aslan invites children to get on his back and go for a lively romp, and in The Last Battle, he's running along side the heroes of the story as they race together "further up, further in" in new Narnia. Bono and C.S. Lewis are pointing to a wild side of God that we rarely think about and understand even less.
Curtis and Eldredge refer to love that comes this part of God as the "sacred romance" between God and his people. While "romance" may seem like a poor word choice when speaking of our relationship with God, that's only because of our limited understanding of the term. Romance is far more than physical attraction; it is an intimate, passionate desire for something beyond ourselves, a "longing for transcendence" . God is "a lover at heart" says Curtis and Eldredge. Jars of Clay call him a "fast pursuing lover" in their song "Hymn". You can easily imagine this sort of God singing the lyrics of the "Wild Honey" chorus:
If you go there with me
Wild honey
You can do just what you please
Wild honey
Yeah, just blowing in the breeze
Wild honey
Wild, wild, wild
God specifically created us to be his lovers. To borrow a line from an old Sting song, God "burns for you." C.S. Lewis speaks to this point in The Four Loves, saying "God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them." Not that this reality is always easy to fully grasp. Bono himself exclaims in an interview, "It's a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the Universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people." Once you understand the romantic nature of God's love, the Bible changes in its significance. It begins to read surprisingly much like a love letter. "As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you," says the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 62:5). He adds a few verses later, "You will be called Sought After" (Isaiah 62:12). The Songs of Songs is an Old Testament book that is more than just a story of sexual love between a man and woman, but also an allegory of God's intimate relationship to his faithful.
Seen in this light, even the hard stuff in the Bible begins to make more sense. Harsh words, far from being hate mail from an angry dictator, can now be seem properly as hurt words from a heartbroken, jilted lover. The prophet Ezekiel cries out to the idol-worshipping Israelites, "You adulteress wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!" (Ezekiel 16:32) This imagery is even more apparent in the book of Hosea, which chronicles the story of prophet Hosea's marriage to an unfaithful wife. Hosea's sad story mirrors the heartbreak that God experienced when the Israelites cheat on him. The surprising truth is that God is depicted throughout the Old and New Testament as someone who has always wanted to woo humans. Simon Tugwell says, "So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about – He is looking for us." This is not just something that he decided to do because we happened to be born into the world. In fact, it was his idea at the get-go. U2 sings:
Did I know you?
Did I know you even then?
Before the clocks kept time
Before the world was made
Once you begin to realize that God has longed to romance you even before he created the universe, Christianity is transformed from a religion into a full-fledged love affair. When you enter into a love relationship like this with God, the Christian life is no longer a set of rules and regulations that you must follow to avoid punishment. Instead, as Bono sings, "You can do just what you please." Bono isn't preaching some sort of hippie, free love, no rules religion. Instead, he is echoing something St. Augustine proclaimed over fifteen hundred years ago: "Love God, and then do as you please." In other words, when you are truly intimate with God, your utmost desire and preoccupation is going to be to want to please your divine lover through obedience and devotion. In fact, the reality of sin itself changes. Instead of breaking God's rules, sin becomes something that breaks God's heart.
Few believers today, however, really think of their relationship with God as a love affair and partake in the intimacy that God desires. When we fail to experience this divine romance, we inevitably seek substitutes for filling that untamed spot in our soul. These usually come in the form of earthly relationships*, sex, expensive toys, career, sports, and hobbies. These replace God as the objects of devotion that we become passionate and consumed about. Of course, we don't find long-term fulfillment in these stand-ins for God; we only end up growing more and more restless in our search. As St. Augustine says, "For You have made us for Yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in You." Instead of giving up, God waits for us from the sidelines as we waste our time and energy on these alternatives. Bono sings:
I'm still standing, I'm still standing
Where you left me
Are you still growing wild
With everything tame around you?
The mainstream belief today is that God is a being who wants to handcuff our passions instead of fulfill them. As a result, people run from him in search of freedom in every other alley way under the sun. But, as the song suggests, the great irony is that these replacements that people turn to are "tame" when compared to the untamed, wild reality of God's love. All the while we look elsewhere, God continues to court us, trying to woo us back to him. U2 expresses this, saying:
I send you flowers
Cut flowers for your hall
I know your garden's full
But is there sweetness at all?
In today's world, the word "Puritan" conjures up stereotyped images of legalistic, prudish folks bent on ridding the world of fun. Regardless of the truth of those stereotypes, there was at least one Puritan, Pastor Richard Baxter, who understood perfectly the wild, passionate side of God. Baxter wrote:
Is it a small thing in your eyes to be loved by God – to be the son, the spouse, the love, the delight of the King of glory? Christian, believe this, and think about it: you will be eternally embraced in the arms of the love which was from everlasting, and will extend to everlasting – of the love which brought the Son of God's love from heaven to earth, from earth to the cross, from the cross to the grave, from the grave to glory – that love which was weary, hungry, tempted, scorned, scourged, buffeted, spat upon, crucified, pierced, which fasted, prayed, taught, healed, wept, sweated, bled, died. That love will eternally embrace you."
God has already demonstrated his amazing love for you with the sacrifice that Jesus Christ performed on the cross, making a relationship possible between God and humans. He wants now to transform what was started into something wild and passionate. "Won't you take me, take me please," pleads God in "Wild Honey." Bono adds:
You could go there if you please
Wild honey
And if you go there, go with me
Wild honey
Bono's use "could" and "if" illustrate how gloriously possible this romance is for you and I. In fact, there's just one condition to making this sacred love affair a reality: simply open up your heart and pursue him too. Will you?
Action Steps
"Wild Honey" offers a fresh perspective on the relationship that we can have with God. As you consider the radical truth of God pursuing you as his love, take the following action steps: During the next 14 days, read the Bible specifically as a "love letter". Read into the text seeing what God is trying to say as a divine lover. Write a "love note" to God opening up to him and expressing yourself as you would to the "love of your life". Write down a list of five things in your life that you get passionate about. Evaluate each item on the list and honestly ask yourself whether it compliments your relationship with God or whether it serves as a substitute for God's passion. For each item on your list that is substituting for a closer relationship with God, surrender it to him and pray that his romance overcomes any of these distractions.
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Aspire Respire Perspire
Wore the same clothes, Talked the same way, Ate the same food,
Eats, Roots, Leaves.
I believe the world is dying. Decaying. Getting farther away from reality.
dream , dance , love
Live loving,love living,leave loved,loving too.
It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field.
Except for the body.
That, my friend, is anaphora.
It was a beautiful day, a beautiful field, an eternal moment.
Is this one?
Barren, silent, godless. (The Road)
But I am his friend, his best friend, his only friend.
Yes, because there is no conjunction after the final comma, which makes the statement more succinct (and therefore more poignant)
I think it would be the ultimate archetype as.....
"Breathless, voiceless, scarcely alive, drained, exhausted."
The end of an enjoyable themed argument :D
I think it would be a true literary marvel as, uh...
yeah, I can't make that any more succinct.
Can an asyndeton be more than a single word?
i.e. "Breath gone, voice gone, he lay scarcely alive, drained and exhausted"
I think it'd be better like "Breath gone, voice gone, he lay scarcely alive. Drained. Exhausted."
I think it would be even better as "breath gone, voice gone, scarcely alive, drained and exhausted."
To be an asyndeton, it cannot have "and". therefore:
"Breath gone, voice gone, scarcely alive, drained, exhausted."
But I do think it sounds much better with one word. For example:
"Breathless, voiceless, lifeless, drained, exhausted."
I'm pretty sure you have to use verbs. The definition states that it must maintain grammatical integrity, and I don't think a chain of adjectives is a sentence.
If you put three '-less' words like that, it feels as if the next word should be 'drainless', which ruins the whole atmosphere :)
If this hasn't been resolved yet then i think it would be good as, "Breath gone, Voice gone, scarcely alive he lay. Drained. Exhausted." but that's only because i like to fit as many literary devices as i can into each sentence when writing a story.
^^ I agree. That varies the syntax and makes the sentence more powerful.
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Green Day: Rock Band :: Wii Game Review
Green Day is ready to break it down in the 21st Century with the latest in the Rock Band series. Check out our review to see if this game is the real deal or just one for American Idiots. Back to Article
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I personally really enjoy the game. The grittiness of the game is amazing- The fancy quality of the Beatles game just wouldn't work.
Unfortunately, a lot of fan fave songs were taken out- Particularly King For A Day, but that was most likely because of the somewhat sexual nature to the song. Still, I was dissapointed with that because it's probably one of their funnest songs.
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LIBRARY LINE: Grow your gardening know-how at the library
By HEIDI VAN DER HEUVEL, Library Line | 4/9/2013
You still have time to get your garden planned and planted for this spring, so come in to the Ottawa Library and take a gardening gander at some of our new books:
• "How to Grow Perennial Vegetables," by Martin Crawford, offers great advice for gardeners (like me), who love having a garden and lots of veggies, but appreciate the beautiful idea of low-maintenance gardening.
• "The Sunset Western Garden Book: The 20-Minute Gardener," by Kathleen Norris Brenzel, has wonderful pictures of clever projects for charming outdoor living, with plants and designs for quick and easy gardening, as well as sections on the planting and care of individual plants.
• Mel Bartholomew has written a new edition of "All New Square Foot Gardening." He first wrote about his new, revolutionary way to grow more in less space in the 1970s. He promotes gardening in frames compartmentalized into square feet, using excellent soil in a depth of six inches. The resulting compact, neat garden has a strong appeal. Excellent instruction and pictures are included.
• "Backyard Farming on an Acre (More or Less)," by Angela England offers scaling down in a larger way. Grow what you need and sell what you don't while farming on a smaller scale.
• David L. Culp will teach you how to master "The Layered Garden (Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage)." Culp is a master of planting so that as one plant reaches its peak, another begins its ascent, resulting in a constantly flowing play of color throughout the seasons. He makes this complicated process easier with information gleaned from his decades of experimentation at his own Brandywine Cottage.
• Two books examining both the actuality and philosophy of gardening include "Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City," by Eric Toensmeier, with contributions from Jonathan Bates. The two men went beyond basic gardening to development of a natural, self-sustaining ecosystem on their small lot, including unusual edible plants and a pond with edible water plant. Meanwhile, Margaret Roach gives us "The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening and Life," ruminating on her 30 years of gardening and how the spirit can be fed when one gardens with head, hands and heart.
I'll be kicking back watching some of our new DVDs. Thanks to Liz who suggested we get the HBO series "Treme." A funny, dark, sharp look at the proud city of New Orleans after Katrina, "Treme" centers on complicated characters and shows the humor, resilience, hope and despair of a city in choas. And the music (the music!) — many of the characters are musicians and many well-known musicians offer musical cameos in "Treme." So many styles of New Orleans music tie together the numerous storylines until the music becomes a force of nature itself.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- IBM (IBM) shares were off 1.4% to $192.25 after Goldman Sachs downgraded the Dow Jones Industrial Average component, citing a concern about the company's near-term business outlook.
Analyst Bill Shope downgraded shares to "neutral" from "buy," lowering his price target to $200 from $220, noting the company may begin to see some pressure on its growth markets, and see pressure intensify on some high-margin revenue streams. He noted that since Goldman upgraded IBM in Aug. 2011 and that shares have underperformed the S&P 500 notably, gaining 15.9%, versus a gain of 39.2% for the broader index.
"We believe IBM's long-term secular prospects remain sound, but the company appears to be going through a challenging period that may limit operational earnings upside and produce more quarterly volatility than investors have been accustomed to," Shope wrote in the note. As such, he lowered earnings estimates for 2013, 2014, and 2015. He now expects IBM to earn $16.61 a share on $103.66 billion in sales for fiscal 2013, down from $16.71 and $104.44 billion. Estimates for 2014 were reduced to $17.92 a share in earnings on $105.67 billion in sales, down from $18.10 a share and $106.73 billion in revenue. Fiscal 2015 was taken down as well, with estimates lowered to $20.01 a share in earnings on $108.12 billion in revenue, down from $20.07 a share and $109.21 billion in revenue.
IBM has been able to perform exceptionally well in "growth markets," including Brazil, Russia, India and China, with these markets representing nearly a quarter of IBM's total revenue. However, Shope believes those markets are starting to stagnate, as they've seen constant currency growth of only 1% during the first quarter of 2013. Shope believes this is likely to persist for the rest of the year, given recent earnings from Oracle (ORCL) and Accenture (ACN). "Furthermore, within China specifically, signs of weakness continue to expand beyond just the technology sector as credit conditions tighten," Shope penned in the note.-- Written by Chris Ciaccia in New York >Contact by Email. Follow @Chris_Ciaccia
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May 1, 2008
I'm a bad father. I try my best to instill the right values for the boys, but sometimes, despite my best efforts, the kids go wrong. I know they're just kids and they are each his own individual person, but I can't help but feel responsible.
The other day, Michael (7) saw me working on a competitive review of Firefox. He noticed their logo and said, "That fox is sooo cute and cuddly. I love it!"
I tried to explain how the fox was really the pawn of a joint communist and Al-Qaeda plot with potential connections to Darth Vader, Voldemort, and people with stinky feet, and that it was trying to undermine truth, justice, and the American way. He didn't care; the fox was cute. (I think I may have lost the argument with the Darth Vader connection.)
I'll keep working with him to reinforce our family values. I hope this is just a fad that he'll grow out of like being a Democrat or vegetarian. :)Posted by Tony at May 1, 2008 10:16 PM | TrackBack
Well, there you have it: Firefox isn't a better browser: it's cuddlier.
Consider this: you spend your days using a browser; would you prefer blue, cold, glass-hard IE, or warm, fuzzy, cuddly Firefox?
Your current employment notwithstanding, between the two, preferring IE means you're a masochist :p
Moreover, children words are the truth. So there.
PS: if your kid thought Firefox has a cute logo, don't ever show him the (official Japanese Mozilla team) Foxkeh theme.
Or Michael could just come hang out with me: Democrat, almost-vegetarian, Powerbook and Firefox user that I am :-)
Connie, once again, you're breaking my heart. I could almost forgive the Firefox thing, but almost-vegetarian? Tell me it ain't true...
Does this mean no cake for us this year, Tony? ;-P
I think it would be hard to match the first cake. Besides, you guys didn't send us one when we shipped... :)


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The wall has come down. Rahul Dravid, one of the finest batsmen of his era, announced his retirement Friday to begin a changing of the guard in India's Test team.In a 16-year career, the 39-year-old Dravid built a reputation as a masterful batsman with immense powers of concentration. His painstaking approach and ability to stay at the crease despite the best efforts of opposing bowlers earned him the nickname "The Wall.""My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity, and it was about upholding the spirit of the game,'' Dravid said at a news conference on Friday.
"I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying... It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride"
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"I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying."It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride."The No. 3 batsman formed part of a feared India batting lineup also boasting Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman, both of whom could soon follow their teammate into international retirement."There was and is only one Rahul Dravid, there can be no other,'' Tendulkar, India's "Little Master," told the NDTV news channel. "I will miss Rahul in the dressing room and out in the middle. I have shared the best moments with him.''Record catcherDravid, who had already quit one-day and Twenty20 international cricket, scored five centuries in 2011 and in England became the first player ever to score three centuries for a team that lost every Test in a series.But he could manage only 194 runs during India's recent 4-0 Test whitewash in Australia amid calls for India to give younger batsmen a chance."I've played for 16 years and it was time I moved on to give a chance to youngsters to take the team forward,'' Dravid said.Dravid scored 13,228 runs in 164 Tests with 36 centuries, and 10,889 runs in 344 one-dayers with 12 centuries. He also holds the record for most Test catches by a fielder with 210.
" I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. No dream is ever chased alone"
Among many other distinctions, Dravid has scored centuries in all 10 Test-playing countries, and once scored four consecutive centuries (against England and the West Indies) in 2002.His 376-run stand with Laxman against Australia at the Eden Gardens at Kolkata in 2001 helped India win the Test despite following on, and he became only the second batsman after Don Bradman to score double hundreds in three successive series when he compiled 222 versus New Zealand at Ahmedabad in 2003-04, 233 against Australia at Adelaide in 2003-04 and 270 versus Pakistan at Rawalpindi in 2003-04.His most memorable Test performance was scoring that 233 and a 72 not out to ensure India's first Test victory in Australia in 23 years."I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. No dream is ever chased alone," he said, thanking his coaches, captains and selectors who backed him over the years.
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Photo Friday: July 18th
Welcome back to Photo Friday! Take a look at our week in pictures.
Over in Thailand, Hannah Russell '15 is teaching English for the summer! Here she is headlining her own float at the Buddhist lent parade. Make sure you keep an eye out for Hannah in our Summer Stories series on 300 The Fenway.
Back in Boston, we've been enjoying some true summer heat on campus.
Two very lucky staff members (myself and our Social Media Manager, Alex Byer) beat the heat by taking advantage of Uber's ice cream delivery service. Delicious!
Some of our awesome Women Changing the Face of Leadership students volunteered at Cradles to Crayons.
Photo Credit: Cheryl Howard
And over the weekend, our WCFL students stayed with various host families in the Boston area. Agaichatou from Mali and Reem from Sudan stayed with our VP of Marketing, Cheryl Howard! They celebrated Reem's 21st birthday.


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text: McLaren: Best from a package that's limited on a circuit like this 20 April, 2013 Jenson Button Team and drivers report from qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix, Round 4 of the 2013 Formula 1 world championship, at Sakhir. Jenson Button: MP4-28A-03 "It's been a very difficult weekend so far, but 10th is a strong result for us today. The team is used to fighting at the front, so it's the little things – like getting through into Q3 – that can make a positive difference. Of course, it's going to be a tough race tomorrow, though. I'll race as quickly as I can, but I don't want people to expect too much from us. However, there are positives to be drawn from today: we out-qualified a Lotus, which was a surprise, and I'll be driving the first car starting on new tyres tomorrow. As in China, that brings a slight strategic advantage, so I'm hoping we can have another decent outing. I think we've both got a chance of scoring points – it would be great for both Checo and me to finish in the top 10 tomorrow." Sergio Perez: MP4-28A-02 "Qualifying was very difficult, and it was disappointing to miss out on getting into Q3 by just a few tenths. We didn't really have the pace to get any further up the grid, though; I think Jenson showed the maximum that was possible for us in Q2 today. Still, we're in a better position to fight for points tomorrow. I've set my car up to look after its rear tyres, so I think our race pace should be a bit more consistent. It's still going to be hard to get into the points tomorrow, but I hope we can have an okay race and make it into the top 10. But it's going to be a long, hard race." Martin Whitmarsh, Team principal, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes "Both Jenson and Checo did a very disciplined job out there today. Going into this race weekend, we knew it was going to be difficult for us – this is a rear-limited circuit, a characteristic that accentuates the weaknesses we have with our car. Still, those circumstances required patience and hard work, and I think the drivers and the engineers got the best from a package that's more limited on a circuit like this. Jenson's lap in Q2 was a phenomenal effort and allowed him to get through to Q3. While that's not what anybody at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is used to accepting, we acknowledge that these are currently difficult times, and that lap was a welcome fillip. Equally, Checo drove extremely well in Q2, and was just a couple of tenths shy of Jenson's top-10 effort. As in China last weekend, our efforts are primarily focused towards aiming for a decent result in the race tomorrow. Both our drivers are great racers, and I'm sure they'll go out there and do a fantastic job for us." Tweet Related NewsRosberg: It was definitely the most exciting race I've ever done in my whole careerMcLaren: It goes without saying that we're leaving Bahrain bitterly disappointedMcLaren: Never happy when your cars qualify seventh and ninthMcLaren: Straightforward day and achieved most of what we set out to doTeam Button and Team Perez reach a truce and make peace for nowMcLaren boss tells Perez to keep spark firingButton: Perez has to calm down or soon something serious will happenMcLaren: We always allow our drivers to raceMercedes: We should be under no illusions it will be a very tough raceMcLaren: There are some positives to take from today