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Christianity faces a peculiar problem in relation to the Incarnation. Was this event unique in the universe, as official doctrine insists, or did God take on alien flesh too? Is Christ the Saviour of humans alone, or of all intelligent beings in our galaxy and beyond...
...easy to see why people who make their living studying Michelangelo and Shakespeare should be agog at the possibility of more material to occupy their attention. But perhaps the marble Cupid's imaginary puzzlement may be shared by flesh-and-blood mortals with no vested career interests in the matter. What indeed is going on here...
Phillips describes his book as exploring "the struggle between flesh and spirit and the search for something like lasting joy in the sexual world, both heterosexual and homosexual--my ideas transcend sexual orientation...
...this writing, Jesus isn't around--not in the flesh, anyway--so it has been left to others to do the hard work of updating his message and making it '90s friendly. For a growing number of Christian musicians, this means using rock and rap as vehicles to carry religious messages to young audiences. Of course, this isn't a new strategy, since musicians have been combining popular music and religious themes for decades. Gospel, with its roots in the blues, was once considered too earthy to perform in church; the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar came out way back...
...ideology won't countenance this solution since it involves the transnational panels of adjudication that he deems inimical to sovereignty. Nor do many mainstream Republicans like this leftish solution. One reason NAFTA's environmental and labor side agreements are bare bones, and barely consequential, is that Republicans opposed putting flesh on them...