{"id":42090,"date":"2018-06-06T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T16:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=42090"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:35:47","slug":"reclaiming-who-a-crisis-in-christology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/06\/reclaiming-who-a-crisis-in-christology\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming . . . Who? (A Crisis in Christology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Fall of 2017 Chicago\u2019s Steppenwolf Theater produced a play called \u201cThe Christians.\u201d It was set in a successful evangelical mega-church, one with all the usual trappings. One Sunday morning, the beloved pastor tells the congregation in his sermon he has come to the conclusion that accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior is not essential for eternal salvation\u2014that eternal life is open to all. This, of course, angers many in the congregation, including the charismatic youth pastor who adheres to the belief that faith in Christ is essential for salvation, while unbelief leads to eternal damnation. The congregation shrinks and ultimately divides.<br \/>\nThroughout the play there was a substantial amount of argumentative dialogue that sounded as though it had been written after the playwright had taken one semester of intro to historical-critical biblical scholarship. To me, however, the crux (pun somewhat intended) of the play was when a congregant in crisis over the situation, a woman of very limited resources who nonetheless tithed away most of her livelihood (think of the widow in Luke 21:1\u20134), asked, \u201cWhat is the point of religion if you don\u2019t get to condemn other people?\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42092\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/reclaiming-jesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1314\" height=\"1516\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I recently encountered the <a href=\"http:\/\/reclaimingjesus.org\">\u201cReclaiming Jesus\u201d<\/a> movement in the news, I found myself circling back to this play. The organization\u2019s mission statement is a strongly, thoughtfully-worded support for equality, mutuality, and diversity, along with advocacy for the poor, marginalized, and oppressed in our society\u2014following the teachings of Jesus as contained in the gospels and Christian identity as expressed in other scriptural writings. There are a number of high-profile Christian signatories on the homepage, though I found only one Roman Catholic (Fr. Richard Rohr) among them.<\/p>\n<p>While I think their work is an important corrective to much of what is being purveyed in the U.S. as Christian teaching, and I acknowledge that the organization\u2019s primary work is not evangelization, their emphasis on ethical teaching and action along with a focus on the person of Jesus\/Christ as an ethical teacher and\/or role model still struck me as emblematic of what seems to be a crisis in contemporary Christology. The group\u2019s homepage doesn\u2019t refer to salvation or eternal life, and only uses the terms \u201cheaven,\u201d \u201ckingdom\u201d and \u201cdivine\/ly\u201d twice each. The divine Sonship of Jesus is not referred to. This gives the group\u2019s statement a nearly-exclusive here-and-now focus.<br \/>\nThe reason \u201cThe Christians\u201d makes me think of the \u201cReclaiming Jesus\u201d movement is my continued wondering about reasons to be Christian. Both the play and the organization present clear statements about the different kinds of lives that flow from different kinds of Christian identity. Neither, in my view, presents a persuasive reason to become, or continue to be, Christian. Again, I do think \u201cReclaiming Jesus\u201d is a necessary corrective to the \u201cun-welcome table\u201d approach of many Christian churches, and I truly do believe that \u201c[t]he vision of a table at which EVERYBODY sits together is one that explodes worlds\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/bilgrimage.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/im-going-to-sit-at-welcome-table-one-of.html\">William D. Lindsey<\/a>). Yet even the social justice vision of Reclaiming Jesus does not contain anything that can\u2019t be pursued or accomplished outside of or in ways other than Christianity.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42091\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/welcometable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nA particularly Roman Catholic focus on this crisis in Christology was further focused for me in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/31\/cardinal-schonborn-on-resurrection-womens-ordination-development-of-doctrine\/\">Cardinal Sch\u00f6nborn<\/a> on the PrayTell blog. The Cardinal was asked how he would explain to a young person that Jesus is risen. His reply, as I noted in my own reply to that blog post, contained no reference to Jesus, or to the Resurrection per se. He didn\u2019t explain why Baptism into Christ\u2019s death and resurrection, and\/or regular practice of the Christian faith is essential or normative, much less mandatory. Discussing this matter with a faithful\/dutiful Roman Catholic friend, he asked, \u201cDo our bishops even believe in Christ?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long thought that the \u201chope for heaven\/fear of hell\u201d dynamic that bound so many generations of Roman Catholics to the institutional church has largely (though not completely) vanished in the U.S. It does not seem that anything equally compelling has replaced it. As Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/04\/andrew-sullivan-pope-francis-isnt-catholicisms-trump.html\">noted recently<\/a>, \u201cneither Benedict\u2019s retrenchment nor Francis\u2019s outreach seems successful in stopping the slow slide of institutional and cultural decline, and the emptying of the pews, especially among the young[.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We have just passed through the festal triumvirate of Pentecost-Trinity-Body and Blood, a series of Sundays whose liturgies forge our missional nature for the remaining stretch of the liturgical year. In our surrounding culture of diversity\u2014especially of religious diversity\u2014and the growing belief in or practice of unmediated divinity, it seems that our missional nature has to be concrete, one that truly attracts others, points to Christ, and brings them to Christ. There is nothing that Christianity has to offer that can\u2019t be found, experienced, or gotten in any number of other places\u2014nothing except Christ. 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