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...almost every known Latin writer, from Cicero to Plautus. He recommended "a complete absorption in statues," but "one must avoid the effect of stone." Rubens' large altarpiece, still in Antwerp Cathedral, of the Descent from the Cross, 1611-14, demonstrates exactly what he meant. The figure of Christ, the pale, dead God sliding down the cross into the arms of the living, is a visual quotation from Michelangelo-the kind of thing artists had been doing for 70 years. But Rubens did it in an entirely new way. Michelangelo had invented a tragic structure for the human body; Rubens...
...declares that anyone who commits the sin of blasphemy should be stoned to death. In Britain, where blasphemy was still punishable by death until the 18th century, the last actual prosecution occurred in 1921, when John William Gott was sentenced to nine months at hard labor for writing that Christ looked like a circus clown as he rode into Jerusalem...
...editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would be hard for even the most perverted imagination to conjure up anything worse...
...which, in Graham's view, saturates every individual and humanity in general. He argues that God, the righteous "moral judge of the entire universe," requires a penalty for sin, and that penalty was paid for all time by the death of God's son, Jesus Christ, on the Cross. "When Christ atoned for sin, He stood in the place of guilty men and women," Graham writes. "If God had forgiven sin by a divine decree, without the atonement which involved the personal shame, agony, suffering and death of Christ, then we might assume that God was indifferent...
...second element, faith, includes the belief that "Christ was who He said He was," namely God's own son, and that "He can do what He claimed He could do," forgive sins and fill a person's life. "Only by believing in Jesus-committing yourself to Him, surrendering to Him-are you saved." Graham insists that this God-given "complete change" in individuals is the only basis for social improvement, because people's efforts to better things on their own are doomed...