Growing up, I was taught to scoff at the explanation of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand that insists that Jesus’ “true miracle was getting people to share.” On the surface, this explanation seems like a flattening of the miraculous to some sentimental platitude. If it’s an exegesis that is part of a systematic neutering of the figure of Christ of his divine wildness, then it is certainly suspect.
no small miracle
no small miracle
no small miracle
Growing up, I was taught to scoff at the explanation of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand that insists that Jesus’ “true miracle was getting people to share.” On the surface, this explanation seems like a flattening of the miraculous to some sentimental platitude. If it’s an exegesis that is part of a systematic neutering of the figure of Christ of his divine wildness, then it is certainly suspect.