Speaking of restaurantiers and last suppers....
Outrage! (pulpit abashed)
and so on.
None of this would have happened if the Patriarchs, in the interests of
Constantine's establishment of a Christian nation state, had not censored
Docetism. "The Love That Dare Speak Its Name" proceeds from
the orthodox teaching (whose politically powerful adherents censored, via
early inquisitional practices, the contrary beliefs of Docetism as a
heresy) that Christ had a human body. The poem, which takes the
supposition of the human body of Christ very seriously indeed, returns
unto the Church what is theirs. Theologically, it does reopen a
fundamental dialogue on Christian faith, not an issue, I would think, that
could be settled by a secular trial.
Karlien
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