RLG203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mahatma Gandhi
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Jesus was really human, sacrificed the flesh, body is the vehicle for scarification as paul said. Resurrection of jesus -- a new resurrected body. Martyrs become recognized as second christs that"s how christian martyrs were read. The baptism of jesus at the crucifixion is a baptism in blood. How did christian ideas about death and body challenge prevailing non-christian ideas in the roman. Are certain ways of dying better than others, are certain ways of deaths remembered or tragic etc?) Someone who gives a testimony (someone who dies for their faith). Socrates he is brought on trial for corrupting the youth. To question everything they have taken as true. They did not want socrates killed they only wanted him gone. They wanted to punish him so after he would banish. We can define them in the abstract, but the more we think about them they get grayer. It depends on the eye of the beholder.
