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COVER: Christ Carrying the Cross, by Andrea Solario. From Scala/Art Resource...
...concern to those interested in the health of American faith was--until last February, at least--the large proportion of Christians who really didn't think of Jesus' death much at all. "In most Protestant churches," says the Chicago Theological Seminary's Jennings, "there's hardly anything of a Cross there. You go straight from Palm Sunday to Easter without passing Go." The omission extends far beyond the historical Protestant aversion to crucifixes featuring Jesus' body. Rather, says Jack Miles, author of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, it dates back to the 18th century, when "Americans tended...
...fact, the majority of Christians are neither purely substitutionary nor purely exemplary in their outlook. JoAnne Terrell, author of Power in the Blood? The Cross in the African American Experience, has faith in a substitutionary atonement through the death of Jesus. It is, she affirms, "one of the cornerstone beliefs of the African-American church." But she believes in some other things too. Some years back, sitting in a seminary class, she had a flashback. She was a girl again, and her mother had just been murdered by her boyfriend. Once more Terrell saw the blood-soaked mattress...
...that in turn suggests a Christianity with a large hole in it where, at the very least, some thought should go. "The Cross is at the center of Christianity, and we know that it was at the center of Jesus' own thinking," says John Stott, an Anglican preacher and the author of The Cross of Christ, who suffered a stroke last year. "I could never myself believe in God if it were not for the Cross." He is almost pleading. "In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune...
...version of The Office is in the works, but don't the British shows that cross the pond usually stink...