‘The spiritual is in the material’
Ron Ferguson considers the vulnerability of the body.
WE recently celebrated Easter, and I want to talk about bodies. Not celebrity bodies – as in, “Does my bum look big in this?” – nor in ethereal bodies divorced from spirit, but just bodies. Bodied bodies.
Let’s cut to the chase: what about the body of Jesus? What we do know for sure is that he was born in the flesh. Christian faith is in-carnate, enfleshed. The eternal Word is made flesh, embodied. Christianity is almost brutally materialistic.
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About Life and Work
The month of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will be almost
upon us as this issue reaches our readers. Reports will be debated and
pronouncements made on a wide range of issues. One thing will be evident: the wind of change will begin to blow over the shape of the Church. After a series of roadshows over the length and breadth of the land from London to Lerwick the feedback on the future of the Church is being carefully analysed and considered.