We continue reading and discussing Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places over at Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed blog. We are on pages 49-84.
Some good quotes from Peterson...
Wonder is the only adequate launching pad for exploring a spirituality of creation, keeping us open-eyed, expectant, alive to life that is always more than we can account for, that always exceeds our calculations, that is always beyond anything we can make. (52)
If you want to look at creation full, creation at its highest, you look at a person - a man, a woman, a child. (53)
Artists, poets, musicians, and architects are our primary witnesses to the significance of the meaning of "virgin" in the virgin birth as "a summons to reverence and worship." Over and over again they rescue us from a life in which the wonder has leaded out. While theologians and biblical scholars have argued, sometimes most contentiously, over texts and sexual facts and mythological parallels, our artists have painted Madonnas, our poets have provided our imaginations with rhythms and metaphors, our musicians have filled the air with carols and anthems that bring us to our knees in adoration, and our architects have designed and built chapels and cathedrals in which we can worship God. (57)
