Sentence examples for cast jesus from inspiring English sources
In February 1804, Thomas Jefferson sat in the White House, cutting verses out of two Bibles and pasting them together into an abridged New Testament that cast Jesus as a rational ethicist.
It would have been tantamount to suggesting that they cast Jesus out of the household to say that an end should be put to the endless stream of foster brothers and sisters who had been coming and going in the seat next to her for as long as she could remember.
After the Civil War, the task of humanizing Jesus fell to liberal Protestant ministers, who, seeking to better society, cast Jesus as "more a moralist than a miracle worker," a figure who walked the earth not to pay a debt owed to an angry Father "but to reveal to human beings the loving character of God, and to prompt them to develop the same character in themselves".
So were Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr. And, the last time I looked, the Bible never cast Jesus as possessed of arrogant self-certainty.
Following his 2011 project Casting Jesus (in which wannabe Messiahs auditioned in front of a panel of Vatican staff), Christian Jankowski has chosen to stage an entirely different group of actors with Heavy Weight History, showing at the Lisson Gallery in London from Friday.
This is the opening night of Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally's iconoclastic 1998 play which casts Jesus and his disciples as gay men in rural Texas.
I've been cast as Jesus five times.
Willem Dafoe was well cast as Jesus, but some critics had problems with the more unusual casting of Keitel as Judas, Hershey as Mary Magdalene, and Harry Dean Stanton as Paul.
CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS A young Jewish girl is cast as Jesus in the school Christmas pageant, much to the displeasure of her parents, in this new play by Donald Margulies ("Time Stands Still"), a commission for the Geffen Playhouse.
For many years, the residents of Solomeo also performed a Passion play every Easter, in which Cucinelli was invariably cast as Jesus, and Federica took the role of Mary Magdalene.
Finer still is the healing of the blind man, a brief and wordless sequence played out in patterns of light and dark: a stick taps along a white wall, then touches the shadow cast by Jesus' head.
