Mark Holtgrefe wrote:
>...However, I found that he assumed too much and was ideologically
rigid.
The Voice of the Duck shatters the Silence of the Wilderness.
>But now that you mention Hetoimasia, the throne "Prepared" for Jesus, I have
second thoughts. It is not that I see this so much as a throne prepared, but
the line of development now looks more like Jesus stepping off his heavenly
throne to become human.
"...Jesus stepping off his...throne" implies to me the imagining of a temporal
vector which, i would think, would not be sustained in the theological
writings, and which can hardly be characteristic of the Nature of the Reality
under depiction here.
surely both the Throne and the "historical" "event" of the Baptism exist
co-terminously, i.e., eternally, within the same timeless, dimensionless,
light-infused "space" as the figures themselves?
sensual imput notwithstanding, it is *not* a comic book.
>In the end, despite the aforementioned promise of having the environment form
the mosaics, it was the mosaics who dictated the environment.
man, you lost me there.
except for the "mosiacs *whom*" part, which i can relate to because of a
previous incarnation.
however, being teleologically challenged, i've got to go with Jim's
"..doctrinal interests have determined those differences" [in iconography].
>Besides that, I disagreed completely with his conclusions.
ahhh... well, i *told* you that this isn't really important.
Crockers, Ab.D., G.C. (ret.)
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