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...Christ staring down from the cross at a woman and child offering him a handful of flowers. Two handprints dominate the picture's center. The wash, with its figures of guilt and atonement, birth and death, make Christ a sign of rebirth and redemption without suggesting that he removes sin and death from the world. Le Visage, a gouache done last year, is a large face surrounded by tiny nudes, flowers, and animals, Devant le Chevalet, another gouache, shows an artist with huge hands. Perhaps the next subject for Chagall will be himself as the artist. Perhaps, in a setting...
...treasury. Then, to breathe greater life into the organization, Simmons hired Edward Clark Young, a press-agent who specialized in fund raising, and Young's partner, a well-to-do widow named Elizabeth Tyler. Young set forth the Klan's goal in terms of Christian morality v. sin. The enemies of America, the Klan proclaimed, were booze, loose women, Jews, Negroes, Roman Catholics (whose "dago" Pope was bent on taking over the U.S.), and anybody else who was not a native-born white Protestant Anglo-Saxon. Many churchmen across the nation acclaimed the Klan's program...
Down to Man's Level. In Driver's view, the complaints of outraged churchgoers that Lawrence is "dragging Christ down" to man's level miss the meaning of the Incarnation: that God in Christ did come down to man's level in everything except sin. The Gospels make it clear that Jesus was subject to all sorts of earthly temptations. "Hunger Jesus knew, and thirst. Death He endured. Pride, sloth, envy, desire for power, idolatry-all came close to Him and were overcome in favor of the virtues of which they are the perversions." Unless...
Toward a New Ethic. Today, argues Driver, the world is full of neopagan sex worshipers-Norman Mailer questing for the "good orgasm," for example. The church today should therefore follow Jesus and seek to "demythologize" sex, proclaiming that man can sin sexually but in much the same way that he sins with money or political power. "The construction of a Christian ethic of sex," Driver concludes, "cannot be properly attempted as long as one retains the mythology of sex that grew up in the ancient religions, is perpetuated in new ones, and from which Jesus as the Christ would liberate...
...Capp, "eager to hurt each other. That's why they are so delicious. They wound each other with the greatest enthusiasm. Anybody who sees theology in them is a devil worshiper." Maybe so. But there is no doubt that Schulz, a fervent Bible reader, is aware of original sin. He owns up to making his Peanuts mean because he believes that kids are born mean. But by making his characters cruel on occasion, he has also made them believable. They have a dignity and a formality that is touching; children are people, too, Schulz seems to say. "I want...