Christ: The Labourer's Bread
What needs to be ruminated time and again is a movement started by a carpenter and a few fishermen; a bunch of stinking labourers whose sweat testified their faith and praxis. They perspired for the sake of the kingdom of God at the expense of being called ‘vagabonds’. Indubitably what emanated from them was the stench of labour than the fragrance of complacency. They knew the value of hunger and that may be the reason why their kingpin Jesus equated his body with bread. What else could he have compared his body with in a poverty-stricken world? How else could he have conveyed his conviction in a world where people were impoverished by the dominant? Mahatma Gandhi reckons “There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” Christology of Bread becomes the kernel of Christianity keeping in mind the liberative axiom of this ‘Labourers’ Movement.’ Christianity would always remain a Labourers’ Movement incessantly demandin...