M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections' 'resurrections'

[rj]

Doug Millison <doug at dougmillison.com> wrote
> 
> Not quite sure what "Orthodox Christianity" includes in this instance
> (doesn't appear to mean, as this appellation usually does, the Greek or
> Eastern Orthodox Church), but contemporary Christianity is a very large
> tent, big enough to include the likes of Crossan and the other historical
> Jesus scholars, for example, as well as a very wide range of feminist,
> queer, postcolonialist, and postmodern thinkers and writers. It is true
> that some conservative elements in some of the major  Christian religious
> organizations do make the sorts of exclusions that rj notes above.

I guess I meant primarily that orthodox (as in "common or garden")
Christianity in all its variants will not entertain the possibility of
were-beavers, sentient light bulbs, cyborgs &c, as Pynchon does; and
that most creeds look askance at the archaeological or literary study of
the (New Testament) scriptures. 

I agree that there has been a broadening, or loosening, of strictures
within Protestantism, Catholicism &c, to a greater or lesser degree,
since the days of Tyburn Tree and the Inquisition. Religious
persecutions persist, however. And yes, the comparative historical and
political contexts of even the four canonical gospels is an intriguing
area of study.

best