http://therumpus.net/2009/07/corpus-delicti/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Sun, 27 May 2012 03:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://therumpus.net/2009/07/corpus-delicti/comment-page-1/#comment-4756 Revgrant Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:11:25 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=24549#comment-4756 How odd a cultural moment when something that I assume is meant to be transgressive is actually circling around an orthodox Christian concept. Specifically, we understand that when we are baptized it is as if we are going down to the grave with Jesus (lowered into the water), only to come back out of it, reborn. In the New Testament, Paul's Letter to the Romans, chapter 6, it's all laid out. I'll grant there's some ambiguity built into the coffin image, b/c the font isn't meant to be solely one sided, but rather double-sided, ying and yang sort of deal, about death and life, but still... How odd a cultural moment when something that I assume is meant to be transgressive is actually circling around an orthodox Christian concept. Specifically, we understand that when we are baptized it is as if we are going down to the grave with Jesus (lowered into the water), only to come back out of it, reborn. In the New Testament, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, chapter 6, it’s all laid out. I’ll grant there’s some ambiguity built into the coffin image, b/c the font isn’t meant to be solely one sided, but rather double-sided, ying and yang sort of deal, about death and life, but still…

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