The Second Sunday of Advent
Daniel Bergèse was preaching this morning. He's a sort of denominational Bible teacher - his job title is "Animateur Biblique", but to the anglophone mind that sounds deeply dodgy, so let's move swiftly on!
He preached on Isaiah 7:1-14, with reference to Matthew 1, about the sign that demands faith. And it was very helpful, certainly for me in this time of "transition".
The signifiant being a child, the signifié being that God is with us, Isaiah rejects the connection between the signifiant and the signifié (ooops - slipped into stylistique there for a moment...)
But a child. What use is a new-born child? Much in every way when the child is God with us!
It set me on a different tack, too - we feel disoriented and disconcerted because we are in transition, we have exchanged one place for another. What transition there was for this one in exchanging glory for grime.
He preached on Isaiah 7:1-14, with reference to Matthew 1, about the sign that demands faith. And it was very helpful, certainly for me in this time of "transition".
The signifiant being a child, the signifié being that God is with us, Isaiah rejects the connection between the signifiant and the signifié (ooops - slipped into stylistique there for a moment...)
But a child. What use is a new-born child? Much in every way when the child is God with us!
It set me on a different tack, too - we feel disoriented and disconcerted because we are in transition, we have exchanged one place for another. What transition there was for this one in exchanging glory for grime.
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