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The Lamb and the Lion or the Greek Passion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The psalmists were the singers of Israel; daily they magnified the name of the Lord, crying Hosanna!, Hosanna! … Today the crooner has become one of those psalmists. By means of the microphone, to a billion families and homes, he sends the same message—I believe, I believe. … His has become the voice of Sunday morning religion. His Nicene Creed is a short catalogue—a simple reverence of Nature's holiness, a worshipping of trees and stars and clouds, a palpitating delight in the first cries of newborn babes. Doubtless such sentiments are easy to ridicule; they can be dismissed as clichèd or Pantheistic—or even if they are conceded to have a Christian note of optimism, then the Christianity which they celebrate may be considered rather wishy-washy. Nor is it hard for those who argue thus to add examples.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1954 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 See Sunday Dispatch, January 31st, 1954.

2 Christ Recrucified. By Nikos Kazantzakis. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. (Bruno Cassirer, 1954; 15s.)

3 Last year I bought a crib. I chose a Dutch set because of the clear blues, Reds and greens. The assistant seemed disappointed. ‘It's not like our English conception', she said, pointing at a set whose angels were the color of ‘strawberry crush'. I was reminded of the bedroom suites of rich film stars.

4 See David Jones's work: In Parenthesis (1937) and The Anathemata (I9S3).

5 Selected Poems. By Gerard Manley Hopkins. Edited by James Reeves (1953).