(urth) Abaia and the undines
Son of Witz
sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Fri Dec 5 20:35:15 PST 2008
On Dec 5, 2008, at 8:33 PM, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall that in an interview with James Jordan, Wolfe balked
>> giving any place to Severian a stand-in for Christ. He explicitly
>> corrected Jordan by stating he was a "Christ-figure".
>
> He is, according to Wolfe a manifestation of the Mystical Body of
> Christ.
> Perhaps it is more accurate to say that he participates in the
> Mystical
> Body of Christ.
>
> In Catholicism, the communicant eats the flesh and drinks the blood of
> Christ. Christ (or bits of Him) thus becomes part of the
> communicant. The
> Christian does not and cannot become Christ: Christ is the Unique
> Incarnation. Christ becomes part of the Christian.
now we're talking.
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