His Jesus is an essentially political figure, a revolutionary killed because he challenged Roman rule, who was then mysticized by his disciples and divinized by Paul of Tarsus. |
It will also encourage us to submit with docility, like the lamb, to God's action in our soul, while letting ourselves be patiently hewn by the Cross in order to be divinized. |
In order to be brothers we must be members of Jesus, saved, sanctified, divinized by him, in him, being incorporated by the sacraments, above all by the Eucharist. |
So it is that we will be transformed, sanctified, divinized, eucharistified in order to live only for God and of God even in this life. |
The titles applied to Jesus, along with the ascension narratives, link Jesus to the divinized emperor. |
We are divinized, given nothing other than God's own life in the crucified one, a paradox we must remain in rather than reject or attempt to resolve. |