…happened in the world's history before. I mean, let's just take a simple fact that between the time of the birth of Christ and the landing of the Mayflower, the population of the Earth doubled. It rose from 250 million to probably 500 million. Today,…

…in a wise passiveness. That is extraordinary that it would come there. I mean, it was not a period when people thought about Christ, but it was... Oh, well, yes, this is after all the poets have thought this way. I mean, Blake thought this way,…

…Well, when one considers that it took 1,600 years for the 250 million people who were alive at the time of the birth of Christ to become 500 million at the time when the the Mayflower reached this country. I can see that this sort of increase has no…

…happened in the world's history before. I mean, let's just take a simple fact that between the time of the birth of Christ and the landing of the Mayflower, the population of the Earth doubled. It rose from 250 million to probably 500 million. Today,…

…happened in the world's history before. I mean, let's just take a simple fact that between the time of the birth of Christ and the landing of the Mayflower, the population of the Earth doubled. It rose from 250 million to probably 500 million. Today,…

…it takes for a population to double. Demographers tell us that the population of the planet at the time of the birth of Christ was probably about 250 millions. That is to say, less than half the present population of China. When the Mayflower landed on…

…made in an address to his parliament where after a long speech he ended by saying, and I beseech you by the bowels of Christ to conceive that he may be mistaken. And I feel that these letters should be written in gold over every rostrum and in front…

…pure that compared with it, particular lights are impurities. And even ideas of the saints of the blessed Virgin and the sight of Christ in his humanity are impediments in the way of the sight of God in his purity. This of course seems, particularly from…

…between the theologians the Greek theologians and the Latin theologians the Greek theologians were not primarily concerned with the death of Christ. They were concerned with the life. The death was, so to speak, a mere incident in the life. And their view…

…he had fallen after the fall of Adam and Eve. And consequently, The life was therefore more important than the death. Irenaeus says that Christ came and lived the life of man in order that man might live a life comparable to his, and that this was the…

…was incapable of giving an infinite satisfaction. consequently that the only possible satisfaction was therefore the death of the God-man of Christ. Well, it was the latter view which prevailed in the more or less official doctrine as it was formulated by…

…the Reformation, and we find that Calvin felt that retributive justice was an essential part of the character of God. and that Christ was actually bearing the punishment which was due to man, that every sin had to be punished. And that Christ, and this…

…of God. and that Christ was actually bearing the punishment which was due to man, that every sin had to be punished. And that Christ, and this is the words he used, he bore the weight of divine anger and experienced all the signs of an enraged and…

…kind of universal love and compassion it's that kind of unjudging love and compassion, which is stressed so much in the gospel, where Christ says, judge not that he be not judged. And there's a phrase which was used by St. Catherine of Siena on her…

…completely an agnostic in regard to the orthodox conceptualizations of religion. And yet, as I say, come to the Gnosis and finally exhibit the fruits of the spirit. And as Christ said in the gospel, the tree shall be known by its fruits. Thank you.

…series of visionaries, beginning with St. Brigid of Sweden in the 13th century, who had visions of the Passion, the Passion of Christ, in the most elaborate detail. The last and perhaps the most elaborate of them is Catherine Emery, who died in the…

…case of the correlation which everybody knows about, between physique and character, is to be found in the traditional image of Christ. Christ has been painted now for nearly 2,000 years. And it is very interesting. If we look at the traditional image…

…case of the correlation which everybody knows about, between physique and character, is to be found in the traditional image of Christ. Christ has been painted now for nearly 2,000 years. And it is very interesting. If we look at the traditional image of…

…Christ. Christ has been painted now for nearly 2,000 years. And it is very interesting. If we look at the traditional image of Christ, we find that it always is a personage with a high degree of ectomorphy. On the basis of studying many hundred of these…

…with a high degree of ectomorphy. On the basis of studying many hundred of these images, Sheldon says that the average figure of Christ in Christian art is a 2-3-5, that is to say, with a certain amount of endomorphy, a bit more of mesomorphy, which…

…traditional norm, We are often rather shocked by the representation. There have been certain artists who have represented the form of Christ as a much higher mesomorph. There's a very famous picture by Piero de la Francesca of the resurrection, which shows…

…tremendous athletic figure rising from the grave. It's a magnificent picture, but it is curiously out of the traditional view of Christ. And in the same way, there are these terrific, muscular, powerful figures of Christ in many of the paintings of Rubens.…

…it is curiously out of the traditional view of Christ. And in the same way, there are these terrific, muscular, powerful figures of Christ in many of the paintings of Rubens. And it was when he'd seen some of these paintings that William Blake made the…

…Rubens. And it was when he'd seen some of these paintings that William Blake made the little rhyme which says, I always thought Christ was a carpenter and not a brewer's servant, my good sir. And this precisely is the kind of reaction that we get from…

…this precisely is the kind of reaction that we get from these departures from the traditional norm of the image of the Christ image as this person with a very considerable degree of ectomorphic. And we should remark here that no artist, whatever, has…

…this person with a very considerable degree of ectomorphic. And we should remark here that no artist, whatever, has represented Christ with a high degree of endomorphic. And in this, Christianity differs very much from Confucianism. We see, for example, in…

…on bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering. In Philippians, he exhorts his correspondence by the bowels of Christ and speaks of bowels and mercies. And in the Psalms, we get this constant reference to another organ of the…

…slow. that the population of the world, it took 1600 years for the population of the world to double between the time of Christ and the time of Queen Elizabeth and that now the population shows every sign of doubling in less than half a century and…

…doubling in less than half a century and of course the numbers involved are incomparably greater At the time of the birth of Christ, there were perhaps 250 million human beings on the entire planet. There are now 2.8 billions. And by the end of the…

…nothing that the most, probably the most influential, the most widely read book of Christian devotion is called The Imitation of Christ. I mean this is precisely the the mechanism. It is a mechanism of imitating an ideal. And of course, unfortunately, as…