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...QUESTIONS: William F. Buckley on right-wing kooks, John Kerry and The Passion of the Christ...
...most Protestant churches," says the Chicago Theological Seminary's Jennings, "there's hardly anything of a Cross there. You go straight from Palm Sunday to Easter without passing Go." The omission extends far beyond the historical Protestant aversion to crucifixes featuring Jesus' body. Rather, says Jack Miles, author of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, it dates back to the 18th century, when "Americans tended not to linger on the agony of Jesus. It was more 'friend of my soul, he walks with me and talks with me.'" That phenomenon, which has only accelerated, afflicts conservative Christianity...
...Christ connecting those stories was not just the one whose death had delivered her from sin. Terrell says he was also the Christ who generations of African Americans have believed suffered with them as well as for them. And, she adds, the Christ who in his life had "stood up to abusive authorities and an abusive culture and taught people how to do that." These Christs, rolled into one Christ, stood by her in her pain, enabled her to see her mother as having died standing up to her abuser and helped Terrell find her place as a person "trying...
Although Terrell may have an especially dramatic Christian narrative, her willingness to mix, match or mutate theories of atonement is extremely common. Mark Noll, a professor of Christian thought at Wheaton College in Illinois, notes that "the average Christian, when he says, 'Christ died for my sins,' may mean more than one thing." And Barbara Wheeler, president of New York's Auburn Seminary, asserts that these days "most mainstream theologians recognize more than two possibilities and the importance of balancing and integrating them." Even in the evangelical world, for every Christian like Reagan White Jr.--a Texas Baptist who recently...
...with a large hole in it where, at the very least, some thought should go. "The Cross is at the center of Christianity, and we know that it was at the center of Jesus' own thinking," says John Stott, an Anglican preacher and the author of The Cross of Christ, who suffered a stroke last year. "I could never myself believe in God if it were not for the Cross." He is almost pleading. "In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune...