Word: crucifixion
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...work of French Theologian Oscar Cullmann, discussed in a roundup of current European theology in the Protestant quarterly Religion in Life. Cullmann maintains that just because the Gospels are the product of the post-Easter church is no reason why it is impossible to reach back beyond the crucifixion to the historical Jesus and "distinguish between the places where the Gospel writers obviously express their own view and the places where they report the words of Jesus himself...
Moving from Creation to the Last Judgment, the Raising of Lazarus to the Crucifixion, the Wakefield Plays open a window on a long-gone world when, in the words of the Mermaid's Founder-Director Bernard Miles, "life was a unity-swear words, sexual references, prayer and devotion unashamedly mixed...
...Play of any seriousness it may have had. His motto was: Christianity can be Fun. He inverted the structure of the Miracle Play, placing the emphasis on the pagans and the thieves, giving the Christians at most a tenth of the lines. And before and after the beheading, torture, crucifixion, or any other horrific maltreatment of the Christian Crusaders, Bodel has a sweetly smiling Angel descend to the stage to tell them about the better life to which they are, forthwith, going...
...examination of The Real West (Gary Cooper narrating) that should leave the average TV oater looking like whinny the pooh. And this Easter or next Project Twenty will complete its life of Christ, taking the story step by step through Tintoretto's Crucifixion and Mantegna's Ascension...
...Crucifixion, when the Emperor Theodosius made it the religion of the Roman Empire...