Jesus of Galilee, American Hero ; Surveying the Myriad Images of Jesus Christ
The Washington Times › June 07, 2004
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Richard Wightman Fox's new book went to press at exactly the wrong time: after the publication of Stephen Prothero's acclaimed and nearly identically titled "American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon," but before the release of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."
The blockbuster Gibson movie, which has been seen by as many as 50 million Americans to date, overnight changed the nature of discourse about the American conception of Jesus.See the full content of this document
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Jesus of Galilee, American Hero ; Surveying the Myriad Images of Jesus Christ
As Mr. Prothero, an academic historian of religion like Mr. Fox, pointed out recently in the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Gibson's Jesus, battered and bloodied in the profound theological drama of his crucifixion, is a far cry from the suave wall-oleo or the initial on a WWJD T-shirt that we associate with the American pop Jesus - yet American Christians embraced him.
That suggests a gravitas in the contemporary American conception of...See the full content of this document
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