From David Weinberger:
Joho the Blog: A thought for my Christian friends as Christmas approaches
Jesus was God’s blog. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Hmm, then I suppose the Talmud would be God’s blog for the Jews.
Anyway, I know I’m off base and off track here. Nevertheless: A Merry Christmas to you and your families.
This has me thinking. Although there will be numerous qualifications and “no, it’s more like…..” and “The Kingdom of God is more like ….” it is an interesting idea to float. It would be interesting to hear what Radical Orthodoxer’s would think.
Most of the comments on DW’s post didn’t seem too serious (most, but not all). For myself, I see more ways to talk about the Bible as blog rather than Jesus. There’s too much “engagement” and “relationship” involved in the “meaning of Jesus” as incarnation to be captured in blog/text. Of course, there are dimensions of the Advent that are “message” and “proclamation” in the sense of what “content” they explicate. But even these considerations hang off of; or proceed from the original question or postulate: Jesus was God’s blog. (I wonder how long it will take for AKMA to chime in on that one…….as of Dec. 23 920am CST, it seems to be down)
Anyway, I may work with this one for a while. Thanks David for the idea.
I haven’t read the comments on the post, but although I think it’s an interesting idea, my only reservation on Jesus being “God’s blog”, which is actually kind of a big one, is that blogs are pretty much only available to those with the means of access to one, which means that the least of these among us are too often found trying to survive on the streets without any time left to surf the internet. Jesus is for all, not merely a priviledged class of people like ourselves.
Peace,
Eric
For sure, and it is my one big reservation as well. But I will also throw in that a true “God’s Blog” would not have it so; that there wouldn’t be such a thing if it were not accessible to all (which is perhaps THE reason why Jesus never told anyone to write stuff down—-access education and books were a major “divide” between the haves and have nots.
So ,yes, agreed, that is a big foil that is a given in this “theoblogical” discussion.
But that DID need to brought out. We’re not talking a “wholistic” idea here. Just a way of talking about a way to think about the similarities (and differences) of God’s communication to the world.
So where do you BLOG from on this day after Christmas?
Haha. I’m BLOGGING from Merced, CA at my parents’ house where I grew up. It’s nice and quiet out here, although we did have a thunder & lightening storm last night at 4am or so.
I had never thought about the whole thing where Jesus never told people to write stuff down. Kinda puts another big wrench in the sola scriptura hooey.
Peace,
Eric