FROM THE ARCHIVES: WERE HE OMNISCIENT HE'D NOT HAVE HAD TO SPEND SO MUCH EFFORT SEARCHING:

The God With an Infant's Face (George Weigel, December 27, 2007 , EPCC)

Christianity isn't about our search for God. Like its parent, Judaism, Christianity is about God's search for us, and our learning to take the same path through history that God does. The God with a human face began the climactic portion of his salvific journey through history as a baby, calling others out of themselves as only babies can do. Every year, the crèche calls us to ponder the Law of the Gift written on the human heart by the God who is Love.

The radicalism of a God who dies is rather easily understood, but even sensible Christians tend to miss the importance of the fact that God had to become human before He could understand us.

[originally posted: 12/28/07]

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 25, 2010 12:01 AM