But on the theological, it remains very interesting to see the devouring and devoured god of the Aztecs, and the continually birthing and dying man of Rabelaisian popular-festive humanism, Xted. My closest contact with that Christianized doctrine would be in GW's Book of the New Sun.
I usually feel a certain discordance between the conception of the Absolute as unchangeable, like in "always-slain", and its presentation as an unfolding. (Not that [it] and [revelation-of-it] have to abide by similar rules, but some sleight of hand may be suspected.) It devalues Act (hence Time, etc) to establish that that cross did not change [not-slain] into [slain]; afterwards claiming the world of infinite changes to be somehow analogous to this unchanging thing...
It does have a certain ring to it though, the formulation "unchanging but not changeless"?
By the way, the ending filibuster of AT seems to run against the grain of living by the Christ Story as PPaul gently offers.
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I usually feel a certain discordance between the conception of the Absolute as unchangeable, like in "always-slain", and its presentation as an unfolding. (Not that [it] and [revelation-of-it] have to abide by similar rules, but some sleight of hand may be suspected.) It devalues Act (hence Time, etc) to establish that that cross did not change [not-slain] into [slain]; afterwards claiming the world of infinite changes to be somehow analogous to this unchanging thing...
It does have a certain ring to it though, the formulation "unchanging but not changeless"?
By the way, the ending filibuster of AT seems to run against the grain of living by the Christ Story as PPaul gently offers.