Thanks.

And completely off topic, I know, but for anyone who wants to win a free DVD of I Am Legend, play the “I Am Legend/Gospel of Jesus Christ compare/contrast”-game here.

Grace and Peace,
Raffi Shahinian
Parables of a Prodigal World

Good response…

Matt

Postmodern?…no. But I agree with its critiques of modernity. I’d call myself post-postmodern.

Emergent?…I prefer “emerging,” and I think we should all be emerging, in one way or another, always.

As for Peter’s answer, “You are the Messiah,” he was absolutely correct, and his answer was from God…in the context of the time and the place that they were in. It would take some more happenings, a different context, for Peter to come to understand that Jesus was more…that He was God incarnate. That would take a crucifiction and a resurrection.

Peter had to become emergent, based on the ever changing context of the question.

Grace and Peace,
Raffi

Interesting comment. Especially because Peter gave a single, correct answer and Jesus seemed to respond that his answer was indeed correct. In fact, it could only have been from God. I would say the single answer God gave Peter is the correct answer. You sound like a postmodern Emergent guy, I don’t know if you are, but they are never happy with the ‘right answer.’ “There must be more” they say.

Matt

I’ve always found it interesting that people try to reduce the “Who do people say that I am” question to a single answer, and the problem may lie precisely in that attempt. If we could broaden our thinking and see how and in what sense Jesus was a man, a prophet, the Messiah, and the embodiment of the Living God, we would come a long way toward understanding the Christology of the earliest church.

By the way, belated congratulations on yet another excellent interview with Bishop Wright.

Grace and Peace.