Everything You Know About God Is Wrong by Russ Kick

Author:Russ Kick [Kick, Russ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2008-05-14T00:20:35+00:00

portray Jesus as fully human. Their emphasis was

less on trumpeting the divinity of Jesus and more

on portraying his humanity. To them, taking on a

mortal body meant taking it on in every way, penis

and all. And sometimes that penis gets hard.

Steinberg explains:

If, as Christianity teaches, God abased himself in

becoming man, then his assumption of human gen-

itals sounds the nadir of his self-abasement. And

then it is the Renaissance image of Christ which

reveals divine condescension, as it were, in extremis;

God joining himself to the human condition to the

point of sharing with man even that portion where-

in retribution for Original Sin is most apparent,

most vitiating.

To put it another way, “Christianity had once,

during that Renaissance interlude, passed through

a phase of exceptional daring, when the full impli-

cations of Incarnational faith were put forth in

icons that recoiled not even from the God-man’s

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist by Denys Calvaert (1540–1619). One assumption of sexuality.”

of many Renaissance paintings showing baby Jesus with an erection.

From The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion.

This was the result of Renaissance artists’ incli-

nation toward naturalism (the art explanation)

and of Renaissance theologians’ emphasis on

the humanness of Jesus (the theological explana-

tion). Put them together, and you get reverential

artwork depicting Jesus’ dick.

Understand that this explanation is a general

one that covers this unofficial genre of art in its

entirety. Steinberg goes deep into art theory/his-

tory and even deeper into theology to explain and

interpret the many interesting variations on the

theme:

• Jesus and/or his mother touching his genitals in

infant scenes and in postmortem scenes;

• Mary purposely exposing her child’s genitals to

the viewer;

• Jesus being circumcised (some theologians

emphasized the fact that Jesus’ circumcision

when he was eight days old was the first of five

times he shed blood for humanity);

Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John by Cosimo Rosselli

• the Magi bowing before and gazing directly at

(1439–c.1507). No formula for baby Jesus during the Renaissance.

From The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion.

the Christ Child’s groin;

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