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Monday 4 May 2009

Jesus triumphed over the powers on the cross, making a spectacle of them (just as crucifixion was intended to make a spectacle of dissidents). We are so depraved, so violent, that we’d even kill God if he came to us — and we did. The cross is the ultimate witness to this reality, and as the church we are called to live out this witness in time and space, in flesh and blood, incarnationally. We are called to a cruciform life that refuses retaliation and rejects the myth of redemptive violence. We should condemn torture not because torture is an exceptional form of violence but because it so utterly exemplifies the violence that characterizes fallen humanity. We bear witness to a new way of life in which we have no need of torture because we have no need of violence at all, and we bear testimony to a day when this will be the norm for all of creation. It is not the state that bears the divine telos for humanity, that gives us a glimpse into the social dimension of the imago Dei, but the church. the Jesus Manifesto

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