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.
Little of the Hebrew Bible's critique of power (the power of kings and military heroes and alleged deities) found its way into Christian christological reflection, except in the thin tradition of the theologia
crucis.
In this sense, as we can see, there is deep truth in the medieval saying tota vita Christi misterium
crucis — «the entire life of Christ is the mystery of the Cross» — because, as the apostolic witness testifies, Jesus gave himself at all times and in all places and with all those who met him, as One obedient to the divine Father's purpose for him.
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.
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.
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.
«Amor
crucis cx cruce natus» does not seek its own; and it has also left behind the idea of «fruitio».63
But to the theologia
crucis Müller adds, and this is a real source of interest and distinguishes him from Kierkegaard, a social - political optimism which, in his case of course, is derived from Marxism.
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.
There is a strong personal attachment to Jesus on the Cross — the theologia
crucis.
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.
That we can find the similar results using different tools tells us something that an experimentum
crucis can't.
(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.)