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...forthcoming movie The Passion by Mel Gibson has already elicited much comment (Arts, “Scholars Challenge Gibson’s ‘Passion,’” Oct. 17). The criticisms generally focus on two points: the movie does not accept the theological reforms introduced by Vatican II and the movie claims to be an accurate historical reconstruction but in fact is not. But the critics, no less than Gibson, need to exercise care...
...Gibson accepts the gospel accounts as historically accurate, there is nothing in this stance that is inherently anti-Vatican II or anti-Jewish. The fact that virtually all academic scholars of ancient Judaism and ancient Christianity reject the accuracy of the gospel accounts, arguing that the gospel writers have, among much else, substantially exaggerated Jewish complicity in Jesus’ death, is neither here nor there. Gibson, as a believing Christian, has every right to prefer the word of the New Testament over the word of university professors. If Gibson chooses to elaborate the story with non-scriptural scenes that...
...imply, as all medieval passion plays unmistakably implied, that Jews of all generations somehow bear the guilt of murdering Christ and that Jewish “Christ-killers” are with us still? This is the question that needs to be asked in deciding whether the movie and Gibson are anti-Jewish...
...have done so I will agree with the movie’s critics. But in the meanwhile, I hope that those of us, Jews and Christians alike, who do not believe that the gospels contain the literal inerrant historical truth, can find a way to allow Christians like Gibson to believe what...
...Hampshire diocese shows no sign of backing down. And so traditionalists, who dominate the Anglican churches in the Third World, are likely to break Communion with the liberals. A promised commission report in a year on how to handle gay issues appears unlikely to prevent a rift. - By Helen Gibson Oil on Troubled Waters BELGIUM The E.U. sought to calm U.S. fears that a planned European military force would undermine NATO. At the end of a two-day summit, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi...