June 22, 2007
It is as if Shakespeare should want to communicate with Hamlet. He can’t do it, because Shakespeare and Hamlet live in different worlds, different universes. Shakespeare is a real person, Hamlet exists only in the world of the play. So how could genuine communication ever be possible?
Well what if Shakespeare wrote himself into the script of the play, created a new character, called William Shakespeare, who would speak and act in the same way that the real-life Shakespeare spoke and acted. Then Hamlet could know Shakespeare: we could even say that Hamlet could have a personal relationship with his creator.
So with Jesus, God has written himself into the text of the human drama, giving himself lines and actions that demonstrate to us what God is like in terms we can understand, and making it possible for us to relate to God in a way that simply wasn’t possible any other way. And the Christian claim, John’s claim, is that when God did that, the name by which he was called was Jesus.” - William Temple
LOGOS: An eternal and unchanging truth present from the time of creation, available to every individual who seeks it.
Jade/Debbie says:
What an AWESOME quote! And so true…
your friend,
Jade/Debbie
T. Suzanne Eller says:
Thanks, Jade.