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Here is the sketch of an altarpiece, a Triptych if you will, I’d create if I was the master of a medieval artists’ guild. It is also a theological reflection on Pentecost… after all: all art is a theological reflection, for better or for worse.
Pannel 1. ‘Over the waters of the Deep’
The Spirit, painted in bright lazurite chiaroscuro and gold-white against otherwise total darkness…
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Wooden carving of Bishop holding Gospel Book, Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
There’s gonna be a new archbishop of the ACNA? How does that happen? Can they re-elect the current one? Who elects? Who’s eligible? Is this like the selection of the pope?
All good questions. This is a quick orientation —far more like a sketch made on a napkin in crayon than a detailed account in clean typeset.
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The Spirit of Christmas is the answer to the riddle given to Adam and Eve at the Fall: that a Seed would rise from the woman and crush the head of the Serpent (Gen. 3:15). The Spirit of Christmas is the Holy Spirit who overshadowed the virgin Mary and filled her womb with the body of Jesus (Lk. 1:35), fulfilling the promise given to Eve. The Spirit of Christmas fulfills promises.
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