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We are continuing to walk through our church’s values in the sermon series on Sunday. Additionally, the blog posts here correspond to that sermon, being follow-up “notes” to Sunday’s teaching.
This week Dcn. Chris preached on the value we place on “Bible.” Let me unpack that value a bit…
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It is a curious thing when a Lutheran theologian and Friedrich Nietzsche are fond to be in agreement. Nietzche bemoaned the ways in which Christ (his great enemy) had spoiled and ruined eros —that is erotic love. Jesus the Galilean had come and ushered-in an age of charity and had done away with the dark and alluring erotic core of heathenism. Anders Nygren, writing later, agreed. Eros is for Nygren something that no Christian should have anything to do with —really and truly. Sure, we may experience romantic affection but the real core of the world was agape —selfless charity.
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But a love that burns poses a problem. How can flame continue to burn? If it continues won’t it burn-out? And what then becomes of love? Here too it seems many of the social scientists and poets also agree: the thing we call love does not seem to be a thing that can burn forever. Either it burns or it remains. And thus Roland Barthes asks, why it is better to last than to last.
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