Week 9 – Inventing Ireland – Declan Kibert (Castle)

Yeats’ and Rushdie’s hybrids of man are “people who root themselves in ideas rather than places. . .people in whose deepest selves strange fusions occur, unprecedented unions between what they were and where they find themselves”.  Kibert describes their experiences as “one of becoming, identity not so much a possession as a way of being in the world” (480).

 

Using the same language metaphorically as believers, we can say:  When we give ourselves to Christ, the Holy Spirit begins to change us into who He intends us to be. We may hold our national and cultural ties loosely, but Kingdom living should be held tightly, because as Phil. 3:20 says:  [. . .]“Our citizenship is in heaven”.  Paul’s statement no doubt was much appreciated by the Philippians who were colonists living away from Rome, though citizens of Rome.