Review: Rekindling the Christic Imagination, Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Review: Rekindling the Christic Imagination, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: This passage part of the review is more interesting than yesterday and on the surface jibes with my own, although not out of triumphalism but because of how the Crucifixion was an act of communion with the sinner.  As I wrote in 1990 and published in 2004, in the Last Supper, Jesus said he would not drink of the fruit of the vine until he did so in the Father's kingdom.  Attempts to get him to sip it are all found in the 3 synoptic Gospels.  John adds a bit more.  Even without the infancy narrative, which clearly sites Mary as its source (she reflected on all these things and kept them in her heart) - at least for Jesus, when he gave his mother unto the care of his nephew, John,  he abandoned his mission to save the world by trusting John to simply care for his aunt.  My imagination has Mary look away at this, unable to bear the grief of Jesus immediate death and in the mind of Jesus severing his connection with this infancy narrative - his first experience of his own divinity.  This is what causes him to call out to the Father in despair - joining us in communion where we are - not where he is.  He then calls for wine and John says he drank some (which is the source of the debate on the nature of slavation - it is either the moment of despair or there is none (with either John or Jesus lying).  The Ressurrection confirms that neither was lying - that the bloody sacrifice of the Cross was more about killing Jesus psyche than his body.  In retrospect, it is impossible to envisage an angry God or accept the Church adopting a morality that assumes such anger (especially over sex).