Word: crucifixion
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...crucifixion of Jesus, the standard chronology would make it outright impossible that this event occurred on any "13th" if the Last Supper took place on the 15th of Nisan (i.e. the first evening of Passover), the first month of the ecclesiastical calendar and the ninth of the civil calendar. November...
...producers of this off-Broadway cause celebre, about a gay Jesus in Texas, were ready for religious protests. What they didn't expect was a crucifixion by the critics ("Utterly devoid of moral seriousness or artistic integrity"--New York Daily News). A sad injustice. Years from now, when the brouhaha is past, Corpus Christi may get its due as one of McNally's best, most moving and personal works. His updating of the Christ story is witty but not patronizing, as sober and cleansing as a dip in baptismal water. Joe Mantello's production--a bare stage, apostles clad...
...deeply religious or keenly responsive to the needs and obligations of society. They led to a fence outside Laramie--and then, what? Is this Pat Buchanan's war for the soul of America? Manliness, perhaps? Or are the older paradigms more telling: Pogrom, Crusade, Massacre of the Innocent, crucifixion...
...lone innocent ever died the way Jesus did, it was Matthew Shepard. He could have been my student, my son, your brother or friend. But after this crucifixion there is no resurrection, no redemption--only the books Matt will never read, the paintings that will hang an eternity without the light of his eyes to touch them. His teachers will never hear his voice in a seminar room...
...also keeps an eye on the basics. What does he feel he can say unequivocally about the shroud? "Based on medical evidence and other information, the image seems to be someone crucified in the manner of Christ." As opposed, he means, to the manner in which the Crucifixion has traditionally been depicted in Western art. "The nail wounds in the hands go through the wrists, not the palms," consistent with what little we now know about the gory practice in the Roman Empire of the 1st century. "And those are real blood flows," following laws of physiognomy that were unknown...