servant-in-the-house

Updated: May 19, 2025

They cling to a mediæval Morality-Play, Servant-in-the-House idea, a kind of head-waiter idea of what Christ meant. This seems to some of us a literal-minded, Western way of interpreting an Oriental metaphor. We do not believe that Christ meant servanthood.

Gerald Stanley Lee - Crowds: A Moving-Picture of Democracy