> It's inaccurate to describe "The Last Temptation of Christ" as simply
> "berating Christians." There were certainly things wrong with the
> film - & with the novel it's based on - but the central theme, which
> was the fact that Christ could be tempted & especially what his "last
> temptation" was, were profoundly correct. The negative reaction of
> many Christians to the movie betrayed a docetic christology.
On the other hand, the movie explicitly endorsed the adoptionist
heresy. It also seems as though Jesus would have eventually noticed
that anyone with a British accent was really Satan.
-- Dr. David Campbell 425 Scientific Collections Building Department of Biological Sciences Biodiversity and Systematics University of Alabama, Box 870345 Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0345 USAReceived on Thu Nov 10 11:34:41 2005
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