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...secret body of teaching known only to an elite. Nonetheless, while the newly found prayer book itself was inscribed during the 10th century, the sayings of Christ it contains may easily be 400 or more years older-dating from an age when Christian man's memory of his Saviour's words and deeds was more vivid than it is today. The prayer book is only the first of many manuscripts found in the area to be translated. Thus, there is the hope of making still other impressive discoveries about the faith of the early church...
...Endikin through the time of trouble into the green pastures -- to the liturgy runs, is a lonely God with a congregation of one. Jack Salomon is quite effective as the pathetic worshiper. He is expressive and understandable as a man needing a God who ends up killing his own saviour when asked to accept part of the truth his deity has shielded him from...
...Titian. It was more characteristic of him to siphon his Biblical subjects through what a Brescia critic once described as "the rustic and cantankerous dialect of his own district." The results were often warm and whimsical. Windows and archways open onto rocky landscapes typical of the region. His Saviour is not the emaciated, sublimely anguished figure of his colleagues, but pasta-fed and plump, his saints more spirited than spiritual. His chubby cherubs often pout like naughty children; in St. Anthony of Padua they hold up a garland from a lemon tree which then, as now, grew on the shores...
...Gospels say nothing about Jesus' sexuality? One reason, Driver suggests, may be that Christ himself is the "great neutralizer" of the religious meaning of sex. In other literature of saviour figures and spiritual heroes, the protagonist is either "a champion of sexual renewal or a warrior against the 'demonic' sexual force." Jesus, even though he condemned sexual transgression, saw sex in itself neither as a barrier in the way of salvation nor as a condition of spiritual blessedness. He accepted it as a fact of life-not as something subject to either divine or demonic power...
Messiah & Magistrate. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews declared that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever." True enough, but every generation has shaped its own unique understanding of the Saviour. To the first Jewish Christians of Jerusalem, he was primarily the Messiah spoken of by Isaiah and the prophets. The Christos Pantocrator of Orthodoxy was as royal a governor as any Byzantine emperor. Calvinism emphasized the stern lord of the Last Judgment, a magistrate who could govern the theocracy that was Geneva. The most painted figure in the history of art, Jesus...