Christian Traditions
April 28, 2016
Final
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We will be meeting for the final
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Final is take home
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Along the lines of the midterm
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Option to write something more narratively
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Two essays – three topics, pick two
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Due on the day of the final
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Thursday May 12 – 8:00 AM
Next Tuesday – posted on moodle – pentacostal and Quakerism –
reading and watch video
How would you describe the color of Christ in America according
to Harvey and Blum?
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Black or White – hard to see him of a different
race
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Throughout history it changes
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Fluid
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Left up to the individual
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Is white Jesus bad?
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Not historically correct
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Good or bad not about imaging of Christ
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what is justified
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Intentions behind the use of the image
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MLK – white Christ, universal Christ
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Overall understanding of Christ as white
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Variety of ways that liberation theology used
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Assumption of Christ as an idea - marginalized
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Identifies with individual community
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People want to identify with Christ
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Historical, political, social – something at
stake
Passion of the Christ
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Mel Gibson uses Anne Katherine Emmerich vision
and experience
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Experience rather than directly historical
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Emmerich – bride of Christ
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View film as bride of Christ
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Emotional appeal
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Starts in the garden
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Satan appears to Jesus
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Muscular Christianity
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YMCA
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constructing Jesus as hyper masculine – mans man
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flashback
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invents the table
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people ate laying down
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carpenter
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satan
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woman with child
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mary with jesus
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androgynous image
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seductive but covered up
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tempting
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snake like
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mary steps on the snake in catholic tradition
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mary is second eve
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jesus crushes snake in the movie
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gender
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gender roles
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mel Gibson – anxieties about masculinity
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beaten body
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satan as female
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Mel Gibsons Bible
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Historically – on T cross
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Scenes that focus on implements of torture
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flogging
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Focus on Michelangelo’s La Pietá
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Taking Jesus of the cross
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Uses Emmerich, art, passion narrative (John)
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Uses all the final words
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First Mark
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Depictions of divine often highlighting what is
valued in a culture
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Who’s in who’s out
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Herod depiction
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Historically – roman
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Depicted as other
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Eyeliner and wig – “Orientalizing”
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Feminine view of Herod
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Pilot
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In movie cares about jesus welfare – less so in
bible
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Relationship with wife
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Novel about conversion of Pilot
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Sympathetic
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Passive role
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Toward jewish high priests
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Anti-Semitic criticism
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Priest identified as bad guys
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Priest in garb – identified with temple
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Don’t see the complexity of Jews in the movie
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Mary quotes from Passover
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Jewish followers not an obvious idea
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Mary
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Depicted as strong
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Role as Jesus’s mother is highlighted
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Cleaning up precious blood – relics
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There throughout the whole event
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John has special place in Jesus’s heart
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Beloved disciple
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Violence
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Brutality unrealistic
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Unable to carry the cross
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Isn’t a normal human
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The point is to feel the impact of the violence
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Tying into the devotional aspect
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