{"id":2081,"date":"2010-07-02T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:27:52","slug":"the-neccissity-of-the-imitation-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/02\/the-neccissity-of-the-imitation-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"The neccissity of the imitation of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Testament law reveals to us something about the nature of God, but it is also an impossibility for us. Christ is our mediator in both directions. He stands not just between our sin and God, but he is also the only way we know God first hand. He only did what he saw the father doing. Only by imitating Christ can we imitate God and grow to be more like him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christianity invites us to imitate a God who is perfectly good. It  teaches us that if we do not do so, we will expose ourselves to the  worst. There is no solution to mimetism aside from a good model. Yet the  Greeks never suggested we imitate the gods. They always say that  Dionysus should be kept at a distance and that one should never go close  to him. Chris alone is approachable from this point of view. The Greeks  had no model of transcendence to imitate. That was their problem, and  it is THE problem of archaic religions. However, in a world where the  founding murder has disappeared, we have no choice but to imitate  Christ, imitate him to the letter, do everything he says to do. The  Passion reveals both mimetism and the only way to remedy it.<\/p>\n<p>-Rene Girard, Battling to the End, p.101<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Testament law reveals to us something about the nature of God, but it is also an impossibility for us. Christ is our mediator in both directions. He stands not just between our sin and God, but he is also the only way we know God first hand. He only did what he saw &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/02\/the-neccissity-of-the-imitation-of-christ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The neccissity of the imitation of Christ&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}