Word: crucifixions
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...sorriest sights in Christendom is the shrine that lays claim to being its spiritual center: Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which encompasses the supposed sites of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The thousands of pilgrims who seek it out every year find the church little more than a musty ruin. The southern façade is some 6 in. out of plumb, held up by a cat's cradle of iron shorings erected by the British in 1935. Under the crumbling vaulting of the south transept, a scaffold has been put up to protect tourists...
...Scriptures as historical material, Protestant thinkers now take them essentially as "the proclamation of the faith of the early Church." Instead of focusing on the time when Jesus was alive, Protestantism is beginning to focus on what is really accessible-the time of the early Church, after the Crucifixion. This places the Scriptures in an entirely new light. "What is important, first of all, is not whether Jesus really said this or that, or really did this or that; what counts is that through the biblical witness the early Church proclaimed its faith in the saving power of Christ...
...call, "Follow me." Bonhoeffer's answer is neither a confession of faith nor the formulation of a doctrinal system, but instant, simple obedience in taking up the cross-"The disciple is a disciple only in so far as he shares his Lord's suffering and rejection and crucifixion." Grace is not cheap, but costly-"the treasure hidden in the field," for the sake of which "a man will gladly go and sell all that...
Almost everybody in his congregation thought it was a wonderful experience, says Baptist Pike. "I felt just like I was at the Crucifixion," said Chicken Farmer James Jackson, 32. But others wanted to call in the A.S.P.C.A., and some threatened Pike with physical violence. Said the Rev. Othar O. Smith of Lebanon's First Baptist Church: " 'Repulsive' would be a very descriptive word...
...mastery of varying techniques and styles. "Eet ees interesting que I have used on le left a very realistic technique," he murmurs, waving his enameled cane, "and on le right le technique of les pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes on the right side is a head-down Crucifixion and its reflection through the banners of the Spanish provinces. A Paradisial egg of light at the top of the canvas contains, from the bottom up, Ferdinand and Isabella receiving Columbus, Saint Salvador, and the Virgin with the body of Christ. The tall banner on the left bears an exact...