Word: crucifixions
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...root of all evil." Going beyond quiz questions, Warshaw found students missing the whole Biblical point of secular literature-for example, the implication of the final scene in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, when the old man collapses with his wounded hands outstretched, as in crucifixion...
...like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical delvings precipitated the misguided popular mind to make him drink the hemlock? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God-consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of the Crucifixion...
Proposed by German-born Augustin Cardinal Bea, the "Jewish Chapter" reflects Bea's concern over the way the Nazis were able to misuse Christian beliefs in oppressing Jews. By absolving the Jewish people of the sole responsibility for Christ's crucifixion, the chapter, Bea believes, would remove the key theological rationale for such pogroms. In itself, this aspect of the chapter could only meet with approval from most of the council members...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th St. More than 60 oils by Francis Bacon, the myopic English master of howling human agony. Yammering popes, chittering baboons, grotesque sides of beef hang alongside the visceral Three Studies for a Crucifixion. Through Jan. 12. Also on view: 20th century drawings by such masters as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, De Kooning, Motherwell, Tobey and others. Through...
...over the world. Prepared by the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the chapter describes the deep spirtual bond between the church and the chosen people, makes clear that guilt for the death of Jesus Christ rests upon all mankind. Preachers and catechists are warned that accounts of the Crucifixion must not give rise to hatred or persecution of the Jews...