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Fr Simon Cuff continues with our Easter reflections this week by considering two further questions Jesus poses: Who do you say that I am? and For whom are you looking? As with the previous entry, this piece began life as addresses at a retreat in Berkeley.
The events of Easter compelled the disciples to reconsider who Jesus was. This question about who Jesus is has endured down the centuries, and remains important even to those who accept the creeds and formularies that the Church has laboured over. In the next two essays, Fr Simon Cuff helps us to meditate on this question.
St Peter's striking words form part of the groundwork for how Christians would understand what our salvation means throughout the centuries. Salvation is not simply forgiveness of sins, or becoming better, more moral, or more generous people. Salvation is a death and a resurrection; “we have died”, Scripture tells us, and now live in Christ (Col 3.3). [...]
There are many verses of scripture which we could use to introduce the central Christian doctrine of the incarnation, the teaching that, in Jesus of Nazareth, we encounter a person both divine and human. The verse I have chosen begins the Letter to the Hebrews. In many and various ways God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets, but now, in the last days, he has spoken to us in his Son. [...]
Where should I start? My subject is Jesus, deliberately chosen as the first subject in a series about the basics of Christianity. Few things seem more basic about the Christian faith than the claim that it has something to do with Jesus. So here we are. [...]
