{"id":45981,"date":"2014-09-21T23:45:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T23:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-depicting_jesus\/"},"modified":"2014-09-21T23:45:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T23:45:45","slug":"pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-depicting_jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45981","title":{"rendered":"PBS &#39; Religion and Ethics Newsweekly&#8211;Depicting Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[PROF. EDWARD] BLUM: Jesus matters so much because of the incarnation, because of this belief that he\u2019s the fleshed body of God. And so if God takes a particular body with particular hair length and particular eye color, then perhaps that says something about the value of that body.<\/p>\n<p>[KIM] LAWTON: The Gospels give no indication of what Jesus may have looked like. Many Christians over the centuries have been reluctant to portray him at all.<\/p>\n<p>BLUM: When we go back to the Renaissance, and we get painters like Da Vinci and Michelangelo, oftentimes their Jesus is quite feminine with really long hair. I mean, he\u2019s typically pretty emaciated, pretty small physically. In many ways, he looks like a Renaissance painter, you know, he looks kind of like they saw themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/09\/19\/september-19-2014-depicting-jesus\/24142\">Read or watch and listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[PROF. EDWARD] BLUM: Jesus matters so much because of the incarnation, because of this belief that he\u2019s the fleshed body of God. And so if God takes a particular body with particular hair length and particular eye color, then perhaps<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45981\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,130,162,133,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-art","category-christology","category-history","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}