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The strong temptation of the Church and of Christians will be—already is—to change their mind after Palm Sunday, and to present the Gospel now not in itself and for itself as true, with an absolute claim upon obedience at all costs, but as the panacea for the ills of a non-Christian world or as the consecration of the best ideals of a deeply secularized society. Let us make no mistake! That is “another gospel,” which St. Paul saw was an “accursed” thing even when it comes to us on the lips of a good man or of an angel from heaven. There can be no other “Gospel” worth the name than the one of Jesus—the “good news” of those hammering paradoxes which he at least fulfilled up to the hilt. He that will save his life must lose it. If thine eye cause thee to stumble, cut it out.
If a man will be my disciple, let him deny himself. . . .
—Gregory Dix
“The King of the Jews,” Church Quarterly Review (January–March 1947)
— culture — Commonplaces #230 — Mar/Apr 2026 —
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