Eschatology

The Earth itself, into which the blood of Christ seeped, will be redeemed and renewed, just like our spirits in Holy Baptism, just like our bodies on the day of the resurrection.

Our passage from Romans steers us between these two dangerous misconceptions: The mythical monster Scylla of believing the body to be evil on the one shore, and the beast Charybdis of believing the body constitutes all there is on the other.

That is why we dance on graves. That is why we smile in the midst of sorrowful tears. That is why we retell old stories and share humorous memories.

If the world could have been saved by bookkeeping, it would have been saved by Moses, not Jesus. The law was just fine.

Things are falling apart. Nothing new, just a different way. Jesus falls smack dab in the middle of all this shit!