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...Christ as Woman...
...hanging a sculpture depicting a "female Christ crucified" [RELIGION, May 7], the clergy at St. John the Divine in New York City demonstrates once again that in churches, corruption usually comes from...
...Cathedral Dean Parks Morton believes that Christa "sends a positive message to women," he misjudges some Christian women. I am in favor of the ordination of women as a matter of justice, but I also believe that Christ was a Jewish man who died crucified at a certain date in a certain place. If Jesus of Nazareth has no historical validity, then Christianity has none either...
Given the supposition that "artistic license" allows artists to flaunt tastelessness and crudity, symbols still cannot contradict truth. There was that circumcision. There is also another historical fact: in Christ's time men were crucified with their backs to the cross, facing spectators; women, the other...
...nightgown, who appears to have received a poke ... and to be holding it up for the contemplation of a kneeling woman, so horrible in her ugliness, that she would stand out from the rest of the company as a monster." The painting in question was Millais's Christ in the Carpenter's Shop, 1849-50, whose image-little Jesus hurting his hand on a nail, in prefiguration of Golgotha-might strike a modern eye as lavishly sentimental and winsome, but was overrealistic to Dickens...