International studio . kindof beauty that Epstein has sought to givehis Christ. For an expression of thisbeauty the sculptor has had ample materialin the Gospels. This question is not at alla simple one ; to some degree the Christfeatures are dependent upon the age ;Michelangelo in a pagan age has created apagan Christ. With this aspect of theproblem, the matter of time, I shall dealfurther. 00000 176 Other strictures of Epsteins Christ havebeen that He is intellectual instead ofgood (as if Christ v/ere an ordinary mortaland carried His goodness on His sleeve !);that he is scornful (this for o
International studio . kindof beauty that Epstein has sought to givehis Christ. For an expression of thisbeauty the sculptor has had ample materialin the Gospels. This question is not at alla simple one ; to some degree the Christfeatures are dependent upon the age ;Michelangelo in a pagan age has created apagan Christ. With this aspect of theproblem, the matter of time, I shall dealfurther. 00000 176 Other strictures of Epsteins Christ havebeen that He is intellectual instead ofgood (as if Christ v/ere an ordinary mortaland carried His goodness on His sleeve !);that he is scornful (this for one who spokeof casting pearls before swine !) ; that heis a Bolshevik (it is certain that the money-changers and Caiaphas regarded him assuch, in the sense that he was a rebelagainst the established order !). It is some-thing of a tribute to the sculptors geniusthat his statue has aroused antagonisms ofa nature akin to those aroused by theoriginal figure. After all, if Christs good-ness was so palpable to all men, the.
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