(urth) christ, already

[Matthew Weber]

Christ is used exclusively in Christianity to refer to the second Person of
the Trinity.  Nobody refers to the Father or the Holy Ghost as Christ.

Here's a handy photographic mnemonic :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aozuas/2404074070/

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Son of Witz <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:

> Are you forgetting the tripartite nature of Christ?
> The Father, The son, and The Holy Ghost.  Christ is an aspect of God and is
> used by Christians interchangeably with God.
>
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 1:20 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> I'd say Outsider=God was about as unambiguous as Gene Wolfe gets.
>
> --- On *Wed, 12/15/10, Son of Witz < <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
> Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Son of Witz < <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
> >
> Subject: Re: (urth) christ, already
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" < <urth at lists.urth.net>urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 4:12 PM
> I don't know about Dionysus. I need to read those again, but I thought that
> Outsider=Christ was about as unambiguous as Gene Wolfe gets.
>
>
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-- 
Matt +

The seaman's story is of tempest, the plowman's of his team of bulls; the
soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his tale of sheep.
    Sextus Propertius (54 B.C.-A.D. 2), Elegies, II, i, 43
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