Nick Cave – http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/15/nick-cave-greatest-feat-artistic-honesty-retire
“So how, then, does Cave understand Christ? In his “The Flesh Made Word” lecture, he offers a compelling reading of John 8: 6-8, the story of Jesus defending the adulterous woman. He makes rhetorical hay out of the oft-neglected depiction of Christ stooping to the ground, before saying, “He who is without sin, cast the first stone.” Cave writes, “Christ did not answer straightaway, but rather stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he didn’t here them…
For me, this seemingly distracted gesture, the stooping down and the writing on the ground, is Christ accessing the God in himself. Christ then delivers the line that disempowers his opponents — and what an extraordinary remark it is — then stoops again to re-commune with God.” That explanation offers a dramatically mystical reinterpretation of the way that verse is traditionally preached. To be sure, Cave’s interpretation still contains the admonition against zealotry, but he argues the stooping action speaks of communion with Christ’s own creative spirit in a uniquely realized form, which allows him to concisely deliver a considered, original but uncompromising thought to the crowd.” http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/beauty-impossible-define-theology-nick-cave
Best Quote: “The God I heard preached about there seemed remote, and alien, and uncertain. So I sat in the stalls, in my crimson cassock, while rogue thoughts oozed beneath the bolted door of my imagination.” But, “back then, I had no idea that those dark mutterings were coming from God.”
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