Creature Politics Notes 8

The Messianic Event as Radical Myth

Here's the other side of the messianic event—the death and resurrection of the Messiah figure. I’m calling this the radical myth because it falls into the miraculous, and is something that cannot be practised, it can only be received in some fashion.

“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptised into the Messiah, Jesus, were baptised into his de…