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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 PeterThis from a gnostic site I definitely wouldn't recommend, but seems a fair summary of the guy the RC's call their first pope:We come to the end of our consideration of a man called Peter – the disciple about whom more has been written in the New Testament than any other. At the end of this journey, two questions remain: - How was this heir apparent to the ministry of Christ, this recognized leader of the fledgling church at Pentecost, so easily shoved aside by James and Paul? - What is the ongoing relevance (if any) of Peter’s life, his writings, his example, to this current generation? Peter’s reputation for acting before thinking – an asset at Pentecost – became a liability as the early church required stronger leadership. The unusual deaths of Ananias and Sapphira may have been nails in the coffin for Peter’s leadership. And compared to Paul, James (and John), Peter was no intellectual giant. Peter had a problem at articulating and then holding to a position. Vacillation over the issue of gentile circumcision undoubtedly lost friends on both sides of the aisle. His heart may have been in the right place, but he could never articulate the case for a moderate position clearly enough to hold his own in the heated debates of the early church. Over time, Peter has fared substantially better in the annals of Church history than his early counterpart in leadership, James the brother of Jesus. This is despite Peter’s loss of official church leadership to James and transfer of missionary mantle to Paul. Maybe this is because so many of us see something of ourselves in Peter. A man with a heart of gold, but for whom courage evaporates at the critical hour. A person who can be bold and impetuous, yet who ultimately compromises for sake of keeping everyone happy. # posted by geoff @ 11:27 am 0 comments
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