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Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy - drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success. It features an ensemble cast including Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Savion Glover, Tommy ...
Jesus and the Disinherited is a 1949 book by African-American minister, theologian, and civil rights leader Howard Thurman . In the book, Thurman interprets the teachings of Jesus through the experience of the oppressed and discusses nonviolent responses to oppression. The book developed out of a series of lectures that Thurman presented at ...
978-0-8021-2996-3. OCLC. 456177369. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a novel by Philip Pullman . Published in 2010 by Canongate Books, [1] as part of the Canongate Myth Series, it retells the story of Jesus as if he were two people, brothers, "Jesus" and "Christ", with contrasting personalities; Jesus being a moral and godly man ...
Five Discourses of Matthew. In Christianity, the term Five Discourses of Matthew refers to five specific discourses by Jesus within the Gospel of Matthew. [1] [2] The five discourses are listed as the following: the Sermon on the Mount, the Mission Discourse, the Parabolic Discourse, the Discourse on the Church, and the Discourse on End Times .
The Cost of Discipleship (German: Nachfolge [ˈnaːxˌfɔlɡə], lit. 'succession' or 'following') is a 1937 book by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, considered to be a classic of Christian thought. It is centered on an exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, in which Bonhoeffer spells out what he believes it means to follow Christ.
Tacitus on Jesus. The Fire of Rome, by Karl von Piloty, 1861. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire. The Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Jesus, his execution by Pontius Pilate, and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals (written c. AD 116), book 15, chapter 44.
For example, both Matthew and John have stories of Jesus's saliva having mystical properties that help restore a blind man's vision. In Lamb , a young Joshua and his siblings playfully repeatedly kills a lizard and then revive it by sticking it in Joshua's mouth filled with healing saliva, akin to stories in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas that ...
Author Michael Brodeur takes the gym too seriously, and not seriously at all at the same time, in his book “Swole: The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscles” in an effort to show the ...