Contemplative in the Mud

Complete Absurdity

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Benjamin Embley

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'White Crucifixion' by Marc Chagall: Jesus, the Cross, pogroms, not to say the least of the Shoah
‘White Crucifixion’ by Marc Chagall: Jesus, the Cross, pogroms, not to say the least of the Shoah

If a Christian theology cannot inscribe in its vision of redemption, of the mystery of the Cross, that Auschwitz too is part of the suffering of Christ, then we’re in complete absurdity. The persecution of the elect of God is not a crime similar to all the other crimes that men are capable of: we’re talking about crimes directly linked to Election and, thus, the Jewish condition.
Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926–2007)

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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