It may seem kind of weird to be talking about Jesus’s suffering and death so soon after his birth. It certainly feeds the notion that Christians are pretty fixated on a suffering Christ. More on that Friday.
Why we’d be talking about Jesus’s death is explained a little bit more once we get to the Gospel, though, with Herod already trying to kill him before he’s hardly drawn a breath.
The Psalms and Isaiah texts present a theologically interesting take on God, one that some Christians would label as heretical. So of course we’re going to talk about it! This idea that all things, living and not, are of God and contained within God has echoes of what some might call a “panentheist” view of God. Whereas a pantheist way of thinking would be that God is in all things, panentheism says that all things are within God. The beautiful thing about this is that it eliminates this perceived division between the physical and metaphysical. It’s all contained within God’s holy embrace or, if you prefer, God’s holy womb.
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