From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 
Subject: (urth) Christians and Christs: A new RPG?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:27:45 -0700

Crush declaimed:

> ... Actually, I think the operative sentence here is "Severian is a
> Christian rather than a Christ." Although, to me for some reason,
> saying Severian is a Christian is a more jarring statement than
> saying he's a Christ.

Well, here you fall afair of the common Catholic theological concept
of the "anonymous Christian" -- the person who, for whatever reason,
is not given the grace to know and believe in Christ in this life, but
believes in what the closest conception available to him/her. This is
a hair, but a critical hair, separater from syncretic universalism: it
doesn't say that everyone will be saved; rather, it says that God 
plays fair and that everyone has the opportunity to be saved.

--Blattid

How many hit points does a Jesus have, anyway?


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