On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, [iso-8859-1] Bill East wrote:
> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 12:21:51 +0000 (GMT)
> From: "[iso-8859-1] Bill East" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Images of Jesus the Christ
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> > It's amusing that everyone made him look like themselves.
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> Actually I find it rather moving, and very good theology. God in
> Christ takes all humanity into himself, male and female, young and old,
> Jew and Gentile, glabrous and hairy. The Church has never attempted to
> depict the historical Galilean. Every representation of Christ
> expresses a theology; and every person is entitled to see in Christ an
> image of his or her self.
>
> Oriens.
Would it not rather be true that we are entitled to see ourselves as
images of Christ, the perfect Human (homo)?
Tom Izbicki
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