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...TIME exhibit is a vibrant testament of where America is and where it's been going. As the country produces new faces and images, TIME will continue to capture them on its covers. And, by a special agreement with the National Portrait Gallery, the magazine will add new covers to its bequest every year...
...moments in Blake's large output when the linearity of his nudes becomes nearly absurd - they resemble skinned rabbits, thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the Old Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge of sexual...
...ramshackle house in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-Plaisance as a hostel for needy people. Soon ex-cons, destitute families and vagrants joined him, and the abbe and his growing family of followers started building new residences nearby, using salvaged materials. He called his commune Emmaus, after the New Testament town (Luke 24:13-32) where two disciples, despondent after the Crucifixion, met the risen Christ and were filled with new hope. As it happened, the Emmaus movement was to grow out of personal travail...
Boynton says that Stendahl's proposal of a core curriculum for Master of Divinity degree candidates is "under consideration right now" by the Div School faculty. Currently, Boynton says, there are guidelines--courses offered in a variety of fields, including the Old Testament, Religion, Theology, Ethics, and the Church and Society. The debate is whether these guidelines should remain guidelines or become requirements, Boynton says, adding that the debate is similar to the core curriculum discussion currently going on in the College...
Kermode used examples from the New Testament to illustrate his thesis. In particular, he stressed the importance of stories intercollated in other stories in the books of Mark and Matthew...