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...establishment of a sovereign Vatican state in 1929, since that date the papal nuncio to Italy, author (1952) of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel and the Messianic Date, in which he used the cryptographic prophecies in the book of Daniel to establish the date of Christ's crucifixion as April 7, A.D. 30; of a heart ailment; in Rome...
...Belgian pavilion offered Surrealist René Magritte, whose charm lies in such odd notions as painting a night scene under a noonday sky. Less appealing was another major Belgian entry. Surrealist Paul Delvaux, whose careful rendering of a Crucifixion and a Pietá peopled entirely by skeletons seemed in needlessly bad taste...
...faith to believe the inspired Word of God as given in the Biblical account of the virgin birth of Christ? - even in this day of artificial insemination? Or is their attitude more akin to that of Pilate, who, for fear of the people (public opinion), acquiesced in the crucifixion of Christ? To deliberately fail to affirm the virgin birth is to deny that Jesus...
...religious season. The principal work was the oratorio The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross by Heinrich Schuetz, a German composer who lived a century before Bach. The opening and closing choral ensembles are an exhortation to think upon the Seven Words on this anniversary of the Crucifixion as a means of sharing the anguish of Christ. The body of the oratorio is part of the passion given in narrative and dramatic form by five soloists. After the Seven Words--"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"--found in Matthew and Mark, we hear the less enigmatic...
...chosen actors never gave their Passion play. Instead, along with their fellow townsfolk of Lycovrissi, they lived it. In The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis shows how the suffering and crucifixion of Christ in Roman Judea might be re-enacted in a modern setting -a Greek-inhabited Turkish town, circa 1920. Second of his novels to be published in the U.S. within a year, it is a striking demonstration of literary virtuosity for Kazantzakis. The hero of his Zorba the Greek was a neo-Hellenic Pan who seemed to have goat-footed his way straight out of pagan mythology...