The Hidden Jesus Christ of D. H. Lawrence

The Obedience of Jesus Christ

As an examiner for colleges participating in the Australian College of Theology I set a question asking students to explain the importance of the distinction between the active and passive obedience of Christ. To my surprise of the eighty or so students who sat the exam only one tried to answer the question, and he or she had misunderstood it completely. Why would this be the case among student...

On the physical death of Jesus Christ.

Jesus of Nazareth underwent Jewish and Roman trials, was flogged, and was sentenced to death by crucifixion. The scourging produced deep stripelike lacerations and appreciable blood loss, and it probably set the stage for hypovolemic shock, as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was too weakened to carry the crossbar (patibulum) to Golgotha. At the site of crucifixion, his wrists were nailed to th...

The Social Thinking of D . H . Lawrence

IT is easy to be aware of Lawrence's great effect on our thinking about social values, but it is difficult, for a number of reasons, to give any exact account of his actual contribution. It is not only that the public projection of him is very different from his actual work, and that this has led to important misunderstandings (that he believed that "sex solves everything"; that he was "a precu...

Digital Preservation at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a worldwide Christian church with more than 14.4 million members and 28,784 congregations. With headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), the Church operates three universities, a business college, 136 temples, and thousands of seminaries and institutes of religion around the world that enroll more than 700,000 students in religious training....

Medical and cardiological aspects of the passion and crucifixion of Jesus, the Christ.