Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Via Dolorosa for Evangelicals

Thanks to Mike Parsons for this link for those unfamiliar with the Stations of the Cross, clearly so major an element in Mel Gibson's thinking in The Passion of the Christ:

The Via Dolorosa
by James Wicker
While writing the screenplay for The Passion of the Christ , Mel Gibson has said that he took inspiration from a Roman Catholic and Orthodox tradition known as the Stations of the Cross. Since most evangelical Christians are unfamiliar with this tradition, this essay will briefly describe and outline it . . . .
The author, James Wicker, is Associate Professor of New Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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