Loved this conversation!! And it matched well with something I had just read in Rowan Williams’ book Christ on Trial. Had to share..
“What does it mean to be without the right to a hearing, without access to the currency of the prevailing market? It is to be without words, to be without the ways in which those around you tame and organize the world. Your own language does not count - whether literally, in the case of subject people whose language has no legal status, or more broadly, when the whole shape of the speech of those in power reminds you constantly that your perspective is not included. You cannot speak in a way that will actually make a difference; your coinage is rejected; nothing you say will ‘come out right’, will persuade or succeed. This is why, in Luke’s account of the trial before the High Priest, the themes already explored in relation to Mark and Matthew are given a new colouring. In Luke 22:67, Jesus is asked by the council to tell them if he is the Messiah. ‘“If I tell you,” he replied, “you will not believe me, and if I question you, you will not answer.”’ In other words: I have nothing to say to you that you will be able to hear or to which you will be able to respond. Luke’s Jesus places himself with those whose language cannot be heard.”
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Loved this conversation!! And it matched well with something I had just read in Rowan Williams’ book Christ on Trial. Had to share..
“What does it mean to be without the right to a hearing, without access to the currency of the prevailing market? It is to be without words, to be without the ways in which those around you tame and organize the world. Your own language does not count - whether literally, in the case of subject people whose language has no legal status, or more broadly, when the whole shape of the speech of those in power reminds you constantly that your perspective is not included. You cannot speak in a way that will actually make a difference; your coinage is rejected; nothing you say will ‘come out right’, will persuade or succeed. This is why, in Luke’s account of the trial before the High Priest, the themes already explored in relation to Mark and Matthew are given a new colouring. In Luke 22:67, Jesus is asked by the council to tell them if he is the Messiah. ‘“If I tell you,” he replied, “you will not believe me, and if I question you, you will not answer.”’ In other words: I have nothing to say to you that you will be able to hear or to which you will be able to respond. Luke’s Jesus places himself with those whose language cannot be heard.”
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I wish I could join! I’m on the west coast and you meet while I’m still at work. I’ll definitely be catching the recordings though!