In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis describes everything in heaven as “much solider than things in our country.”
That phrase came to mind with the juxtaposition of seeing many images of Caravaggio’s “Incredulity of St. Thomas” and an Easter Day interview in the New York Times with progressive theologian and president of Union Seminary, Serene Jones.
Among other things, Jones wanted to inform the world — on Easter, of course — that she does not believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ. For Jones, “the empty tomb symbolizes that the ultimate love in our lives cannot be crucified.” To paraphrase Flannery O’Connor, if Christianity presents only “symbols” then to hell with it.
