[lit-ideas] Jesus -- Pathological?

  • From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:41:42 EDT


In a message dated 8/11/2010 1:13:34, jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes  
to comment on McCreery's material on Jesus Christ-martyr:
 

Surely  there is some severe kind of psychological suffering going on at 
the  time.
 
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Well, perhaps the problem is in 'pathology'. We tend to assume it's a  bad 
thing. But when Saul (or Paul, later St. Paul) spoke of the 'passio' of  
Christ, he meant 'pathos'. Mutatis mutandis, he was pathological.
 
Speranza Bordighera


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