http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/08/31/first-links-8-31-12/ A First Things Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 03:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/08/31/first-links-8-31-12/comment-page-1/#comment-70664 Botolph Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:08:54 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=47137#comment-70664 “The Stumble Stones of Trier” has an obvious two-fold meaning. They first refer to the actual special pavement stones marking those stood up against Nazi tyranny. However, the deeper meaning is that the seven priest-martyrs themselves are ‘the stumbling stones’ skandalein in the , ‘the cause of the rise and fall of many’. Like Christ Himself they became ‘signs of contradiction’ to the prevailing political group think.
These courageous men witnessed to the truth that “Jesus is Lord” and not some ‘party” or “ideology”

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