Chesterton: modern Jesus?

Sunday, April 1, 2012
    Palm Sunday
    Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872
Meditation:
    On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple area and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
    The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
    —Mark 11:15-18 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Whatever else is true, it is emphatically not true that the ideas of Jesus of Nazareth were suitable to his time, but are no longer suitable to our time. Exactly how suitable they were to his time is perhaps suggested in the end of his story.
    ... Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), The Everlasting Man, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925, Wilder Publications, 2008, p. 123 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You speak with wisdom and power to all times. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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