The pastor reflects on both the hunger walk and the upcoming
via crucis on Good Friday in which hundreds of churchpeople, including a small contingent from First Church, will carry crosses memorializing the Nicaraguan dead in the annual Quaker peace vigil on the Boston Common.
That we can find the similar results using different tools tells us something that an
experimentum crucis can't.
This seems to be the price to be paid for a missing
teologia crucis and only a very loose link between Christ and the historical Jesus.
«An exodus, a real
via crucis... [Christians] are walking on foot in Iraq's searing summer heat towards [salvation in] the Kurdish cities of Erbil, Duhok and Soulaymiyia, the sick, the elderly, infants and pregnant women among them,» a regional Christian leader told AsiaNews.
A real
theologia crucis, when pursued in a consistent trinitarian manner, suggests that even death does not lie wholly outside God's own essential being.
(It's at best a conflation of the fact / value dichotomy, the myth of the
experimentum crucis, the myth of the given and other philosophical niceties.)
It is simultaneously removed in the theologia
crucis and deus absconditus of Luther's theology and in the uncertain mooring, unworldly lighting and aesthetic blandness of Cranach's painting.
Of course, that is not how the average person in the street in post-Christian Europe perceives the issue, but there is a widespread perception that we are standing at a great crossroads — a via
crucis — which could lead either to liberation or to disaster.
Dan Flavin, icon VII (via
crucis), 1962 — 64.
icon VII (via
crucis), 1962 - 64.
Icon VII (via
crucis), a black box with an angled corner highlighted by a white fluorescent bulb, makes reference to the path Christ followed as he carried the cross and is suitably somber and stark.