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Cathedral of the imagination: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.(Critical Essay)
WHATEVER ONE might think about the doctrinal or ritual changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II, one thing is certain: the changes have not been inspiring for artists of any kind. It seemed that the great religious works of the past were suddenly as archaic as the so-called "trappings" of ritual. Indeed, this seemed to be the case in all of the Western Christian tradition, which stopped focusing on the mystical and imaginative apprehension of Jesus and his meaning to concentrate on Jesus as the ethical teacher of social justice.
Only in the Eastern tradition, in the Orthodox churches, particularly in Russian Orthodoxy, did there seem to be a continued ...
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