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| | Phil Stoltzfus: "Imaging Suffering, Imaging Christ" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | All of our traditional images in the West give us a Christ, whether sweet or bitter, that is very white and very European—a Christ who is, ultimately, a Roman, an oppressor, indeed, why not the Holy Roman Emperor himself, as Hans Memling did in |
 | | “White Crucifixion” of 1938, gives us a Jewish Jesus. |
 | | last startling image from the Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco, a Mexican Christ, who has clearly suffered from the wounds of crucifixion, jumps down off the cross, grabs and axe, and chops the cross down. |
| www.stolaf.edu /people/stoltzp/Talks/ImagingSuffering.htm (1657 words) |
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