Sorry to anyone waiting for the actual theology I read on holiday - this is a digression. Yesterday was not a particularly good day for me. It is extremely strange being in a church where I don't know anyone and have nothing to do, and the preacher isn't my husband. It WAS nice having him sitting next to me and passing tissues over at appropriate intervals...
So I spent the evening cheering myself up by overcoming the gates of hell. For the uninitiated, this means eating Toblerone chocolate...
This stems from a remark I made at a Bible study about how I had been very confused by an ikon I'd seen in Greek Orthodox churches in which Jesus seemed to be standing on two Toblerone bars. It took me a while to realise the two yellow things near the base of the ikon are actually the gates of hell!
I hope that might encourage some of you to do the same ;-)
But surely the two people on either side are standing in boxes full of crushed oreo cookies? Or maybe it is melted Bournville?
ReplyDeleteThe whole idea of a Chocolate Theology is very appealing. You probably know that Ferrero Rocher was in fact a Swiss reformer, who corresponded with Erasmus, and Snickers used to be called 'Marathon' which is a corruption of 'Melancthon'. The anabaptists were villified for their practice of 're -dunking' chocolate digestives in their tea.
Then of course, in the early days of the charismatic movement, American pentecostals got into major trouble for bestowing "Hershey's Kisses" on fellow worshippers.
[I am not bothering to mention all the obvious Quaker influences like Cadbury etc]
Can we get someone to sponsor us in this research ?? - you do the theology of chocolate, and I will do the hymnology of the Biscuit, [ Fig Newton, anybody?]
further comment - Bob says you have biblical evidence in 1 Thessalonians "we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the Aero"
ReplyDeleteI think someone has already started the chocolate theology....
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