"We were unprepared for the possibility that Christians did not focus on the death of Jesus for a th

[safeinOhio]

https://www.uuworld.org/articles/early-christians-emphasized-paradise-not-crucifixion?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=apr14

[TygrBright]

1. Thank you! Very interesting article.

I may even look for the book.

It sounds like the Christ I know.

appreciatively,
Bright

[angstlessk]

2. Dern, if you are looking for a Christ to like

are you truly an atheist, or just an agnostic?

[safeinOhio]

3. Academically you can

and must look at all of it.

[TygrBright]

7. I don't feel any connection to -ists or -isms. n/t

[struggle4progress]

4. Circa 430-35: Carved cypress panel from the doors of the Basilica of Santa Sabina, Rome

http://www.christianiconography.info/iconographySupplementalImages/crucifixion/santaSabina.html

[Tobin S.]

9. They must not have checked with Google. n/t

[struggle4progress]

5. 4th or 5th century: Basilica of St. John Lateran, Rome

http://www.christianiconography.info/lateran2007/apseLateran.html

[struggle4progress]

6. Mid-8th century: Icon, Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai

http://www.christianiconography.info/iconographySupplementalImages/crucifixion/stCatherineIcon.html

[guillaumeb]

8. Recommended.

From the article:

In short, the needs of empire—and theologies that justified and then sanctified violence and war—transformed Christianity and alienated Western Christians from a world they had once perceived as paradise.