Tisha Woo’s Reviews > Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages > Status Update

"What kinds of vulnerabilities, transformations, pains, and pleasures does one face in a divine marriage in its fullness?" (p.58)

"In loving Christ as our lover, we become more human, like the Son of Man himself...we are more open to the vulnerabilities and glories of being embodied souls. The way of the Lover is the way of the Cross. Beyond the cross is resurrection and the mystery of true union." (p.65)

Ch 3 Christ as Lover:
-seeing Christ through language of embodied intimacy an antidote to coercion/depersonalization.

-Gregory the Great: “...we are provoked to reflect on the mercy of God...for he goes so far as to use the language of our shameful loves I order to set our heart on fire with a holy love." (p 48)

-medieval mindset, Christ is lover of the soul (not a bride/church metaphor)