Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
...affair with a married politician, camouflaged as a British M.P. but speculated, depending on the continent, to be former Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock or former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. The romance, however, is secondary to the book's mixed bag of metaphysics. MacLaine asserts that Jesus Christ developed mystical powers during years of study among holy men in India. She contends that "trance mediums" have enabled her to recall past lives. Although she privately acknowledges that she encountered a number of frauds, the book's exuberant tone suggests that almost any spiritual visionary, from William Blake...