https://rupertslandnews.ca/the-messiah-in-the-time-of-trump/ News from the Diocese of Rupert's Land in the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rupertslandnews.ca/the-messiah-in-the-time-of-trump/#comment-44205 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:04:10 +0000 http://rupertslandnews.ca/?p=3369#comment-44205 Indeed. As a Mennonite who has flirted with Anglicanism (a creature sometimes referred to as a Manglican) this repudiation of state church theology strikes me as good news, and timely indeed. I would like to bolster this move with the Christian anthropology of Rene Girard (see, e.g., “I See Satan Fall Like Lightning.”) Girard makes his case for how the Messiah alters the shape of our time not by making a theological assertion but by offering a sociological fact. In brief: the cross tears away the veil of sacred legitimacy from state violence, as upheld by religion since time immemorial. In this new, exposed state, no one can agree anymore who the “good guys” and “bad guys” are. Anti-establishment becomes the new establishment. Pretending to be anti-establisment becomes a tactic to uphold establishment. In a strange way, only Christianity could give us a Trump. And only Christianity offers the cross-shaped tactics able to overcome his evils with good and expose his lies to the truth, with love.

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