The Death of Lazarus - Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother
The Death of Lazarus - Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary who anointed the Lord
Beginning with reference to Nikos Kazantzakis's account of the death of Lazarus in The Last Temptation, and proceeding to Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous description in The Idiot of Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521), I endeavor to articulate a constructive...
March, when I went up to his lodgings to see whether it was true that one of his children had been starved and frozen to death, I began to hold forth to him about his poverty being his own fault, and, in the course of my remarks, I accidentally smiled at the corpse of his...
And how exactly did his suffering and death make us whole? There has never been a conclusive single answer, because any attempt to “solve” the Paschal Mystery with a reductive formula is missing the point. The cross is an experience to enter, not an idea to be explained. “I wonder as...
Jesus has compassion for each one of us and calls us by name. “Lazarus, come forth!” Can you imagine what that was like? Not only to be Lazarus but to witness such a stunning event by the One who is sovereignoverdeath? It has been stated that if Jesus had not called Lazarus by ...
”—the death of the body and the death of the soul. As dwellers in a secular age, some no longer worry about the fate of body and soul in the afterlife, but is anxiety over a failing body, a shriveled soul or an emotionally dead heart any improvement on the medieval fear of hell?
of worms, death and thin bones, keeper of the Lazarus resurrection and the sun seeps into my parted lips as does the soil. I close my eyes sinking, unable to hold air or hearing. Honoured to offer it my flesh and my singing bowl, I am covered in this stream...
Risk of deathalone cannot justify a no-landings edict.4. The subcrustal ocean is two to three times the volume ofEarth's. Life exists down there, but we have forgotten how toreach it. Rumors of some vague abyssal connection to Titanand Enceladus are unsubstantiated, and in this agent's ...
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