tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21118726.post9160577626677648400..comments2024-03-13T13:29:58.961-07:00Comments on holy heteroclite:: Misundertaking Palm Sunday: Subverting Subversiondavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21118726.post-68925959599512299432012-04-01T20:20:54.363-07:002012-04-01T20:20:54.363-07:00Kevin:
yes! Palm Sunday is overlooked...and subv...Kevin:<br /><br />yes! Palm Sunday is overlooked...and subversive! Triumphs over triumph. Is your last question rhetorical, What are your thoughts on what it marked?<br />http://davewainscott.blogspot.com/2011/11/subverting-palm-sunday.htmldavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07135992921485306480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21118726.post-39278389238992722932012-04-01T14:37:42.855-07:002012-04-01T14:37:42.855-07:00I am glad to see your addressing Palm Sunday. I w...I am glad to see your addressing Palm Sunday. I wonder how many Evangelicals will let this week pass without consciousness of the Passion of our Lord. <br /><br />"A Triumph" was very special parade in Rome. Only the most successful military leaders earned a triumph. Romans prized Honor. "To Triumph" was the dream of a lifetime.<br /><br />A Triumph followed a specific protocol. Ancient documentation is not available. But generally it went: 1) Senators, 2) Trumpets, 3) the spoils of the war, 4) the defeated king, 5) the ceremonial servants of the man honored, 6) the man himself riding on a chariot pulled by four white horses. 7) The man's army (without their weapons). <br /><br />As the parade progresses, a slave accompanies the honored man. His job is to whisper in his ear, "Remember that you are mortal." Presumably this is so the Triumph would swell the honored man's head. But heads did of course swell. That is the point of having a Triumph after all. <br /><br />On Palm Sunday the appropriate point of reflection is this: 1) What is Jesus' Triumph celebrating? and 2) How dare Jesus to present himself with a Triumph! Is he trying to use the Triumph to say something about himself? Or, is he using himself to say something about a Triumph?<br /><br />My vote is that Jesus' Triumph undermines the meaning on Triumph. He is mocking the pretension of the thing. At the same time is a marker of victory over something. But what?Kevin Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00593108727833796897noreply@blogger.com