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...centuries, Christians expended vast interpretive energies on that last phrase. Long-standing arguments between Catholics and Protestants revolved around whether Mary inherently possessed the grace enabling her to accept the divine will (making her more worthy of Catholic-style reverence) or was granted it on an as-needed basis. These days, however, some feminist readers like Vanderbilt University's Amy-Jill Levine, editor of the forthcoming Feminist Companion to Mariology, are more interested in what might be called Mary's feistiness. After all, Levine points out, the handmaid line does not follow immediately upon the angel's tidings that "thou...
...context of that empire-wide tally, he was also suggesting that not just Jewish Palestine but also the entire known world was a possible horizon for Christ's kingdom. It was a delicate line. The adult Jesus would later put it nicely (although Luke may have inherited this particular phrase from the earlier-written Mark): "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which...
There has been lately a lot of talk about this “opting” business. The idea of “opting,” a phrase I once used casually to say whether or not I’d like to do something, has recently taken on some serious new intonations. I’m not exactly sure where it began, but at least since the Undergraduate Council termbill tax hike last year, it seems that I have come to define myself and those around me in a new dimension: as opt-inners or opt-outers. It?...
...believe it was John F. Kennedy ’40 who first coined the phrase, “It doesn’t count if it’s in another area code—or inside 14 ‘Pimpton’.” In that spirit, having selected three choice examples from among a bevy of interboard communication, Gadfly is proud to present a Crimcestuous primer: “Who are you hooking up with...
Although the phrase may seem sacreligious, it has become the motto of the Crimson’s design board, which I chair together with the lovely Hayley Bay Barna...