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...freshmen refer to Harvard’s most august stately house as “Dumpster” and even state the superiority of Mather—which is naught but the box out of which Dunster came! I have even visited the Big Tom Tower of Christ Church College, Oxford and it is but a humbled ancestor of the majestic tower which tops the pinnacle of Dunster...
...over and comes to a conclusion. "It physically had to happen," he says. "I'm not sure I would have said that before I saw the movie. But now it's much clearer to me. I can't say why he had to suffer the way he did. But Christ...
...movie, of course, is The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's version of Jesus' final hours on earth--which, since it opened on Ash Wednesday, has been seen by more than 30 million people. It is now Holy Week, and across the country over the next seven days even more people will be talking about Christ's Passion. In the U.S. alone, tens of millions will attend church and participate in services that relive the death and Resurrection of the Messiah. For a certain sector of the public, the seasonal spirit has been further enhanced by the publication...
...what will mark this Easter week as different for an even greater number of Christians--and perhaps deepen the nature of its observance a bit--will be the ongoing impact of The Passion of the Christ. In addition to attending church services, many will fill the plush pews at their local cinemas to absorb--some for the first time, others for the second or fifth--Gibson's graphic celluloid sermon in parallel with their pastors' talks. In the past six weeks the film has made $340 million. It has opened in about 350 additional theaters for Holy Week, but even...
Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ has certainly done its bit to combat Christianity lite. The film's stance on atonement could best be described as substitutionary (that initial Isaiah quote sets the theme) with a strong dose of Catholic Passion piety (the very gory details), a pinch of exemplarism (the flashbacks to Jesus' teachings) and those sulfurous whiffs of the ancient good-vs.-evil model. In other words, an understanding almost as eclectic as the average American's. Will it convince anyone of any particular philosophy? Perhaps not, but it is a reminder that the question...