Opinion 155

After the Akathist last night, Fr. Marc brought up the curiosity that we Christians worship a king born without a male seed. A kingship in the ancient near east without the proper paternity, without the right nobility of blood, was really no kingship at all. Jesus is in this way a new sort of king, really a type of anti-king. His is a kingship that culminates in defeat, moreover - not a good prospect in kingliness. As Fr. Marc likes to say, if your king's throne is death on a cross, he is not the sort of king who is going to protect you and your village.