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Gospels: Jesus Christ
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A transformative theatrical event unlike any you’ll see this season, Poland’s Teatr Zar brings its remarkable Gospels of Childhood to UCLA Live in its exclusive U.S. engagement. A profound, visceral, and ritualistic spectacle reminiscent of the work of Poland’s Song of the Goat (last seen at UCLA Live in 2005), Gospels of Childhood incorporates acting, chanting, movement and millennia-old polyphonic funeral songs from Georgia, Bulgaria and Greece to envelop the audience in a deeply moving and meditative experience. Using texts from Christian mythology, including the resurrection of Lazarus and the testimony of Mary Magdalene, Gospels transports audiences to a realm hovering between the worlds of the living and the dead, ultimately leading to a fully realized theatrical moment of redemption. Second generation disciples of the late theater revolutionary Jerzy Grotowski, this extraordinary multinational group of artists strives to create work that communicates on a primal, non-spoken level, leaving audiences emotionally and spiritually altered.
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In addition to the four canonical gospels there have been many other gospels that were not accepted into the canon. These works appear to be later compositions than the canonical gospels, and as such were only ever accepted by small portions of the early Christian community. Some of the content of these non-canonical gospels (as much as it deviates from accepted theological norms) is considered heretical by the leadership of mainstream churches, including the Vatican.
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The gospels have withstood the opposition’s attempts to refute them as purely mythological. For the Christians who believe them to be true, they tell not only the story of Jesus Christ but ... give an example of his life that they should try to pattern.
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One should not expect any evidence for the early existence of non-canonical gospels. The patristic sources that have been preserved were, of course, those that were valued by later Christians who recognized only four authoritative gospels.
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The gospels explain the meaning of Jesus’ crucifixion and death. They all say, in different ways, that in Jesus the living God of the universe was present on earth as a human being, and that in his death and resurrection he dealt with the plight of Israel, the plight of the world and the plight of every individual.
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