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18 Nov 2008 02:42 pm
Obama's Faith
Joe Carter accuses me of not reading his orginal post on Obama's Christianity, Alan Jacobs defends Obama's faith, and Larison gets into the theological history. Freddie also responds here. Obama's description of Jesus as a bridge between God and man (Joe's core sticking point) does not, it seems to me, exclude his divinity, which is why I find Carter's search for heresy misplaced. The Incarnation is just such a bridge and a mystery. I guess I find a modern Christianity that is not attuned to that mystery, not willing to reimagine and undergo God in ways that may not always merely repeat orthodoxy to be ... well, moribund as a faith. I don't think Obama's engagement with it to be unChristian, merely modern.
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