Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture pt.2 12/04/2022

 

Something else that stuck out to my in Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture was from page 33, “They concern the relationship between the timeless message of the founder, whose words and works show how to obtain release from time’s suffering or how to use it to one’s eternal advantage, and the concrete circumstances of time and place. Believers in the message seek to imitate or to unite with the founder by replicating his actions, either literally or in spirit. Pilgrimage is one way, perhaps the most literal, of imitating the religious founder.” Again I think this replicates the things we’ve talked about over the course of the semester. How we only have so much time on earth and believers try to do their best to be close to God or feel close to him in their own ways, such as pilgrimage.