For Christians, the Transfiguration -- when Jesus's friends hear God's voice say, "Listen to him" -- amounts to the authority of revelation. Humans (faithful or not) experience authority in other ways as well: The authority of economic and political power; inherited authority; the authority of those who know more than we; and perhaps most potent of all, the authority of those who sacrifice and suffer for us. My Sunday, Feb. 22 sermon at St. John's is here.
Monday, February 23, 2009
"Authorities": Sermon for Last Epiphany
For Christians, the Transfiguration -- when Jesus's friends hear God's voice say, "Listen to him" -- amounts to the authority of revelation. Humans (faithful or not) experience authority in other ways as well: The authority of economic and political power; inherited authority; the authority of those who know more than we; and perhaps most potent of all, the authority of those who sacrifice and suffer for us. My Sunday, Feb. 22 sermon at St. John's is here.
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