Shrek
I suppose I should warn you, this is actually the first of three posts I plan to make this evening all largely related to my movie watching experiences this past weekend....
On Saturday I went and saw "Shrek 2" and I must admit I enjoyed, perhaps not as much as my family but it was good fun. Perhaps it was because Holy Trinity Sunday this weekend it got me thinking in that direction. To go back to the first "Shrek" Princess Fiona regularly changed back and forth between a beautiful princess by day and an ogre at night. So I started wondering if perhaps this could be the start of analogy to describe the trinitarian nature of Christ? Then I remembered my systematic theology classes and figured there must be at least 35 heresies in that notion. Yet I didn't want to give up on the notion.
So as I thought some more on it, since it just wouldn't go away, I wondered if maybe it could be better used to describe the two natures of Christ. On the one hand she was completely human. On the other hand she was completely an ogre. Yet she was only one person, she was Fiona. Now I suppose if you really wanted to push and stretch things we learn what that one underlying essence of her is would be love and ultimately truth. That's probably stretching things a bit much, but perhaps it's something worth chewing on. I do think it could work to describe the two natures of Christ.
On Saturday I went and saw "Shrek 2" and I must admit I enjoyed, perhaps not as much as my family but it was good fun. Perhaps it was because Holy Trinity Sunday this weekend it got me thinking in that direction. To go back to the first "Shrek" Princess Fiona regularly changed back and forth between a beautiful princess by day and an ogre at night. So I started wondering if perhaps this could be the start of analogy to describe the trinitarian nature of Christ? Then I remembered my systematic theology classes and figured there must be at least 35 heresies in that notion. Yet I didn't want to give up on the notion.
So as I thought some more on it, since it just wouldn't go away, I wondered if maybe it could be better used to describe the two natures of Christ. On the one hand she was completely human. On the other hand she was completely an ogre. Yet she was only one person, she was Fiona. Now I suppose if you really wanted to push and stretch things we learn what that one underlying essence of her is would be love and ultimately truth. That's probably stretching things a bit much, but perhaps it's something worth chewing on. I do think it could work to describe the two natures of Christ.
posted by pb @ 9:45 PM
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