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...offices, says Tillich, are "dangerously irreligious, and they are something against which everybody who understands the situation of our time has to fight." Against them he puts paintings that attempt to thrust the viewer face to face with reality, 16th century Matthias Grünewald's famed Crucifixion on the Isenheim altar ("I believe it is the greatest German picture ever painted"). Modern existentialism in art, he says, begins with Cézanne and penetrates to "the depths of reality" in pictures like Van Gogh's Starry Night...
...find no crucifixion of the 'teacher,' no deposition from the cross, and no 'broken body of their Master' to be stood guard over until Judgement Day ... It is our conviction that either he has misread the texts or he has built up a chain of conjectures which the materials do not support...
...broadcasts, Allegro had been far more assured. He spoke then of the pre-Christian Teacher's "probable" crucifixion at the hands of the "wicked priest," of his followers' hope for his return to lead the "people of the New Testament," as the Qumran community called themselves, to "a new and purified Jerusalem." The parallels seemed so pat and Allegro so sure of himself that experts assumed that he had had access to a bombshell of a discovery...
...Prisoner is psychological torture but well worth seeing; because Alec Guinness portrays this crucifixion of modern man. One of the outstanding films of the year, at the Exeter...
...Michales gnashed his teeth." With this flat opening sentence, Greek Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis introduces his third memorable novel to reach U.S. readers in as many years. A pagan demiurge named Zorba goat-footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek. In The Greek Passion, the peasant Manolios reenacted the Crucifixion as it might have happened in a 1920 Anatolian village. Captain Michales of Freedom or Death is a citizen soldier-patriot burning to set late 19th century Crete free from Turkish rule. These three heroes have nothing in common but the Kazantzakis touch-a gift for catching...