We can conceive of Jesus as the greatest artist civilization has yet known. What are the characteristics that make him thus:
His Goal was always present in his mind. He was never distracted by heteronomous sources of desire.
He was perfectly human, with all the tenderness, intimacy and range of experience this entails.
He cheerfully endured being fundamentally incomprehensible to most people
He flagrantly rejected social convention - self-interested worldly activity and rigid morality alike
He lived as a holy fire, treating everyone and everything as sacred and redeemable
He endured betrayal and sacrifice by God, and even lost faith for a moment, but without really losing faith
His work was meant not to be assessed and appreciated, but to alter the fabric of reality itself
Nevertheless, as Hegel declared and effectuated, the Christian Church is no longer able to contain the holy spirit.
The true Church resists names and dogmas: it is bound by love, mutual recognition and compassion. It respects no transcendent authority, and its maxims are always subject to revision
Modernism, counterculture and emancipatory politics have been carrying the spirit of Jesus since the late 19th century, but they have disavowed the source that has been propelling them.
We live in a new era for which this loose alliance between the humanities and the political is no longer an adequate vessel for the blood of Christ. A new vessel must be fabricated and used, and this task is Ark Work.
Ark Work can only function as a synthesis of the arts which is simultaneously an individual, a community and a physical world - free, concrete and varied beyond comprehension: the union of Religion and the Individual.