Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Avalon game, entitled Year of the Lord, is based on the seasons of the Christian calendar. Or, as the instructions feverishly explain, "The church goes through the whole life of Christ once a year. This makes a swell racetrack for a game, through Advent into Christmas, off again to Epiphany, around the corner to Holy Week and Easter, and finally, circle the board to Pentecost...
...deicide. "All of us black people who lived in the neighborhood hated Jews," recalled the late Novelist Rich ard Wright, writing of his Southern boy hood in Black Boy, "not because they exploited us, but because we had been taught at home and in Sunday school that Jews were 'Christ killers.' We black children ? seven, eight and nine years of age ? used to run to the Jew's store and shout: 'Jew, Jew, Jew, what do you chew?' " This heritage of religion-bred hatred was augmented by economic resentment...
...proud display in the N.C.F.A.'s new gallery, the paintings are suffused with something approximating their original unearthly aura, a weird kind of radiant half-light that Ryder thought of as "golden luminosity." It floods across the two foreground figures in Christ Appearing to Mary, painted about 1885. It pulses in the background of The Flying Dutchman, which shows the phantom ship gliding across the horizon behind an open boat manned by three storm-tossed mariners. As Ryder remarked: "What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" In this painting...
...willing to examine and learn from other traditions, but they should also be thoroughly objective with regard to their own faith, winnowing the wheat from the chaff without worrying about the chaff. All a priori assumptions must thus be avoided, even so basic an assumption as one that places Christ at the starting point of its theology before examining Christian tradition in the light of other intellectual disciplines. "Theology," insists Berger, "must begin and end with the question of truth...
...with money he has stolen, Jan buys passage on a vessel piloted by a fisherman friend. But if the fisherman is Peter, there is no Christ. -In a scene that seems less photographed than etched, the boat drifts through clutches of floating corpses; the sky and ocean are pitiless, and death is the only redemption...