Jesus? No, according to Mitt Romney, it’s America. Romney has been ending his speeches with something like this:
“It’s a choice between two different destinies for America. President Obama wants to fundamentally transform our country. We want to restore to America the founding principles that made this country great and the hope of the Earth!”
A bit over the top? Rhetorical license? No. This is just plain old blasphemy. American Christians stand up!
“When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, ‘Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.” (Revelation 1:17–18)
“The minimalism of Chalcedon, in other words, is not only constitutive but also regulative. It is constitutive with respect to salvation, and regulative with respect to interpretation. More precisely, it is constitutive regarding Christ’s person in the work of salvation, and regulative for the church in its interpretation of Scripture. As a hermeneutical construct in particular, Chalcedon offers no more and no less than a set of spectacles for bringing the central witness of the New Testament into focus. It suggests that just because Jesus was fully God, that does not mean he was not also fullly human; and that just because he was fully human, that does not mean he was not also fully God. When the New Testament depicts Jesus in his divine power, status, and authority, it presupposes his humanity; and when it depicts him in his human finitude, weakness and mortality, it presupposes his deity. No interpretation will be adequate which asserts the one at the expense of the other.” (George Hunsinger, “Karl Barth’s Christology: Its basic Chalcedonian character”, in The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (ed. John Webster; Cambridge: CUP, 2000), 128)
