Jesus

I find myself becoming more and more interested in Jesus, as opposed to Christ (by Christ I understand the post-Resurrection Jesus). Christ can only be understood (and that only partially) in the context of the Trinity and the Logos and hundreds of years and thousands of words of theological reflection. The Jesus of the synoptics, once you leave out the more obvious post-Resurrection interpolations, is a very human figure (and therefore understandable) grappling with the need to understand and communicate to others his religious experience. It may well be that, at a metaphysical level, it is through the Eucharistic Christ that the process of theosis works, but at the intellectual level it is the historical Jesus that I relate to, his difficulties and struggles that resonate with me and his darkness in the garden that illuminates mine.