St. Maximus and Suffering in Christ It is now
clear that, while accepting the divinely ordained
hierarchy as an essential order
of the transmission
of Christ's grace, Maximus also transforms this
hierarchy into models
of personal participation in the
power of grace.
Take a closer look at The Shape
of Water, however, and its florid whimsy subsides into a stark,
clear and eminently contemporary human parable, streaked with fury against traditional
hierarchies of power in America.