The ‘cosmic Christ’ and the ‘historical Jesus’
Over the years, a number of attempts have been made to put some kind of wedge between ‘Christ’ and ‘Jesus’. Some, for example, have distinguished between ‘the Jesus of history’ and ‘the Christ of faith’. Philip Pullman, in similar vein, would have us imagine ‘Jesus’ as a ‘good man’ and ‘Christ’ as a ‘scoundrel’.
A couple of months ago, I read Richard Rohr’s book The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation (Whitaker House: 2016).
I had been prompted to read it by a friend, who had felt reassured by Rohr’s challenge to evangelicalism’s ‘exclusivism’ and thought that this book offered a new and better way.…