Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who casts a solemn, hot-eyed Spanish student (Enrique Irazoqui) as Jesus and sends him out to preach among the peasantry with a social revolutionist's fervor. Yet Pasolini at his best has created something more noble and touching than a Marxist Messiah, and more authentic than the customary sun-kissed Hollywood Christ. The film's dialogue, for example, comes intact from the Book of Matthew (with English subtitles translated according to the English edition by Monsignor Ronald Knox...
CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES. Handel's Messiah, by the congregation of Dallas' First Baptist Church (ABC, 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.); Baptist services from the Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte, N.C. (CBS, midnight1 a.m.); Mass from Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral (NBC, midnight...
...interested in Christianity at 17, when he was a student of New Testament Scholar R. H. Strachan at the University of Glasgow. In a career of publishing and writing, he has increasingly concentrated on Christ. In Passover Plot his thesis is that Jesus believed himself to be the "expected Messiah of Israel" and that he set out deliberately to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies of the rejection of the Messiah, his suffering as expiation of the sins of the world and his ultimate triumph over death. Jesus, says Schonfield, "carefully plotted" every step of his brief public ministry so that...
Jesus chose "the day of his death" by allowing himself to be arrested the night before the start of Passover; he pronounced his own death sentence when answering Caiaphas' question, "Are you the Messiah?" He bluntly said, "Yes, I am." Such careful timing assured Jesus that his body would be taken down before the start of the Sabbath, in accordance with Jewish law. Thus, he was on the cross only three hours, though ordinarily it took days for a man to die from agony and exhaustion in that form of execution...
...they were unnecessary to the truths proclaimed by Jesus in his teachings. Schonfield claims that as a Jew he has no need to torture the no-Resurrection theory into some form of support for Christianity, but he does not discredit Christ. Instead, he argues that Christ was indeed the Messiah-the Son of Man, as he thought of himself, but not the Son of God-who had been foretold by the Jewish prophets of old, and that this is glory enough...