"The Gospel of Jesus Christ is an end in itself," Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, told OsvNews.com on 11 May during a trip to the USA.
"Any attempt to instrumentalise the Gospel for a subsidiary purpose, whether cultural, ideological or political, is suspect."
He warned against "any attempt to brandish Christianity void of the message and presence of the Wounded and Risen One".
And: "Any presentation of Christianity that abstracts the scandal of the Cross, or that uses the Cross perversely as a weapon with which to strike others, is veering towards heresy or even blasphemy."
However, the main focus of the interview is psychology, not religion. Some of his main points are:
- absolutizing our own experience
- immersed in my own experience
- the drama of my existence
- learn to live with my wound
- being wounded is the human norm
- a remembrance of healing
- living enclosed in ourselves
- shut myself off
- a new way of being human
- a human life is a drawn-out affair
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