and the subject of “The Last Temptation of Christ.” To be fully man, Jesus would have had to possess all of the weakness of man, to be prey to all of the temptations–for as man, he would have possessed God’s most troublesome gift,...
In reading the Gospels, one is left with the perception that Jesus got away with desire—that is, he withstood Satan's temptations. The essay explores "getting away with it" in light of Jesus' temptation in the desert. Ways this experience might have formed the person and ministry of ...