Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested in your July 29 story on Artist Fretwell's Holy Family in modern dress and Reader Afton Wynn's later comments on primitive paintings of the Madonna (with an Indian face) on the walls of Mexican churches. Why shouldn't a Christ, a Madonna or angels look like Indians or Negroes, or whatever? Great medieval artists represented members of the Holy Family in clothes of the artist's own period. Christ can appear in all shapes...
...hope," said Rector and Headmaster John O. Patterson of Connecticut's Kent School, "that this meeting may be a means of regaining and restating what general education could be within a Christ-centered culture.'' Rector Patterson was addressing a group of theologians and scholars of many faiths who had come for a special symposium marking Episcopal Kent's soth birthday. Now published in book form (The Christian Idea of Education; Yale University; $4), the papers and discussions of that symposium cast fresh light on one of modern education's greatest lacks and needs...
...church? Apparently not, says James W. Carty Jr., religious news editor of the Nashville Tennesseean in the current issue of the Methodist monthly Together. He quotes a pessimistic sports photographer: "In games, sportsmen divorce their conduct from their religious principles." and Editor Carty, a member of the Disciples of Christ, agrees 'that "this dark stain in our sports fabric" has spread over the whole athletic field...
...Agreed not to change the criterion for membership in the World Council from simple belief in Jesus Christ to include more complex credos, e.g., the doctrine of the Holy Trinity...
...what was Goya saying? Malraux keeps lunging at the point. In general he argues that the master's art was anti-idealistic, un-Christian and interrogatory: "If Christ is not the very meaning of the world, then the body of an executed felon by the roadside is more significant than a crucifix . . . Christian art was an answer; his art is a question. The Mocking is a pathetic subject but not a ridiculous one because Jesus has chosen to be mocked. The garrotted victims of the Inquisition have not chosen the pointed cap that shakes in their agony; the laughter...