Richard, a wise colleague once told me that the Cross is made up of the vertical (God and us) and the horizontal (us, society). Your reference to "flattening" is about the modern phenomenon of the death of God. When we take God out of the picture, everything loses depth and substance.
Richard, a wise colleague once told me that the Cross is made up of the vertical (God and us) and the horizontal (us, society). Your reference to "flattening" is about the modern phenomenon of the death of God. When we take God out of the picture, everything loses depth and substance.