Roots of 'The Passion'.Influence searching is a fair critical exercise, but your editorial attempt to smear smear (smer) a specimen for microscopic study prepared by spreading the material across the slide. Pap smear , Papanicolaou smear see under test. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ with anti-Semitism by linking it to the writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (German: Anna Katharina Emmerick, born September 8, 1774 - died February 9, 1824) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, mystic, visionary and ecstatic. does not work ("Gospel Truth?" March 26). Saying that some scenes are closer to Emmerich's Dolorous Passion than to the gospel accounts is a long, long way from saying that the movie also is trying to communicate certain prejudices of Emmerich's day. In Mel Gibson's vision of the Passion, responsibility for Jesus' suffering and death is given above all to Judas, to leaders (Jewish and Roman) who manipulate manipulate To cause a security to sell at an artificial price. Although investment bankers are permitted to manipulate temporarily the stock they underwrite, most other forms of manipulation are illegal. the people, and to Satan, who tempts everyone, including Jesus. God is somehow also involved, for he has Jesus drink this cup. And of course, it is Jesus who chooses to accept it. Jesus' sacrificial sac·ri·fi·cial adj. Of, relating to, or concerned with a sacrifice: a sacrificial offering. sac act overrides in importance all assignment of blame, particularly because the movie suggests that we are all guilty. Gibson's movie offers us a great way to get beyond anti-Semitism. CLAUDE Claude , Albert 1899-1983. Belgian-born American biologist who was among the first to use the electron microscope for biological research. He shared a 1974 Nobel Prize for developing methods of separating and analyzing cell components. PAVUR, SJ St. Louis, Mo. |
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