JtME Week Three
Ch. 5 & 6: The Word & the Mother
Dear bookish friends,
Welcome back to reading together! I hope you love your bookmark downloads and fun extras… Personally, I’m planning on theming my bookmarks by what I’m reading. Thomas Aquinas for theology, Langland for poetry, etc. 😊 Please do let me know if you end up making the recipes and having a medieval-themed book club!
Here are the questions you received in your email:
Chapter 5:
“In his great theological teaching project, Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches readers to put our God-talk in order so that we may fittingly teach and imitate incarnational love in how we speak of Christ” (p. 93). How do you see the way we talk about Jesus connected to the way we live?
If you were one of Thomas Aquinas’s students in the medieval university, what kinds of questions would you like to ask?
Chapter 6:
Do these scriptural themes and medieval images of Christ as a Mother change how you think about Jesus? If yes, how so?
What do you think it means for us as adult Christians to “use the condition of a child,” as Julian of Norwich writes, in the context of Jesus’s maternal love?
I love hearing from you. Feel free to engage with other readers in the comments, ask your own questions, or share your thoughts about these themes and other themes in the book. Thanks for reading with me!
Peace,
Grace