{"id":15084,"date":"2011-12-06T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T05:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15084"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T05:24:20","slug":"jesus-wasnt-a-super-good-person-according-to-rowan-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/jesus-wasnt-a-super-good-person-according-to-rowan-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus wasn\u2019t a \u201csuper-good\u201d person according to Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Jesus would spend Christmas with the St Paul\u2019s Cathedral protesters, the Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday.<\/p>\n

Dr Rowan Williams declared that Christ would be \u2018there, sharing the risks, not just taking sides.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said in an article aimed at the huge audience of buyers of the Christmas edition of the Radio Times that Jesus \u2018is somebody who constantly asks awkward questions\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Archbishop said: \u2018Christmas doesn\u2019t commemorate the birth of a super-good person who shows us how to get it right every time, but the arrival in the world of someone who tells us that everything could be different.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Jesus wasn\u2019t \u201csuper-good\u201d, does that mean the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks Jesus was slightly bad, that he sinned? If he doesn\u2019t show us how \u201cto get it right every time\u201d, does that mean Jesus sometimes got it wrong? Does Rowan Williams believe that Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father<\/em>? It doesn’t sound like it.<\/p>\n

Dr Williams said in his article: \u2018One of the slogans on the posters and banners in front of St Paul\u2019s Cathedral has been \u201cWhat would Jesus do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018This started life in the US some years ago, with people wearing wristbands with WWJD on them. It\u2019s one of those things that looks wonderfully obvious, a quick way to the right answer.\u2019<\/p>\n

He added that when Jesus said \u2018give Caesar what belongs to Caesar\u2019, he meant to ask \u2018what\u2019s the exact point at which involvement in the empire of capitalist economy compromises you fatally?\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That must be one of the things Jesus didn\u2019t get quite right: when he said \u2018give Caesar what belongs to Caesar\u2019, what he really<\/em> meant to say was that you should \u2018give Caesar what belongs to Caesar\u2019 unless, instead of being a ruthless tyrant, \u00a0Caesar happens to be a capitalist, in which case, don\u2019t giving him anything since capitalists are more corrupting than the devil himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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