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Early Christians and Their Deluded, Prurient Love
But Romans frequently criticized the Christian emphasis on love as somehow a little deluded and perhaps prurient, suggesting that followers of the Jesus Way made it known that theirs was a path of love. Early Christians insisted that love–not rationality or politics or even virtue–was the primary bond between God and humans beings. Love was God’s symphony, the perfect beauty that human beings experienced through the practices of faith–by imitating Christ and following his way.
The above excerpt comes from Diana Butler Bass’ book The Peoples History of Christianity, which I’ve been meaning to read for a long time and just recently picked up for a great price at a Borders going out of business sale. Not that I wouldn’t pay full price for this book, so far it is excellent.
Anyway, the notion that early Christians were associated so much with their emphasis on love, prurient love even, definitely reminds me of this quoted passage of Crystal Downing’s and the notion that the Christ-event elicits copulation on the part of Christ’s followers: “The copulation of a living faith and obedience together.”
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