Tag: Messiah

  • Surprise (Daniel Kirk on Jesus and Adam)

    Storied Theology: Surprise   Daniel Kirk Jesus was an unlikely Messiah. … … But it’s not just that Jesus was crucified. Surprising as that was, the more incomprehensible idea was that this crucifixion would somehow be, not the denial of his messiahship, but the quintessential embodiment of it. What it means to be Messiah is, somehow,…