Cur Deus Homo - A Contagious and Incendiary Madness
Acrylic on canvas
200cm x 150cm (+ 2 cm tray frame in black)
Why did God become a man, what was his purpose? Was it to expose himself to injurious mistreatment, ignominious and painful death on the cross? Or that any torture whatever to the living being is better than the bliss of the rest-satiate boring, passive being? Maybe God became man in order that man, shaken in his original resolve should again be confirmed in it. Well, the carpenter from Nazareth has been interpreted historically in numerous ways. For instance, Jesus has been viewed as a Jewish cynic peasant carpenter, philosopher firmly convinced that embracing material minimalism and dismissing conventional societal values were required for personal salvation; then as an apocalyptic prophet who was convinced that the arrival of a cosmic judge, the Son of Man, was imminent on earth and that he would render judgment, transvalue the dominant values of the world, and inaugurate the Kingdom of God; not to forget, as the Son of God, sent as saviour to suffer and die in order to redeem all human beings and as an advocate of violent revolution who aspired to liberate the Jews from Roman domination; finally as a politically leftist social reformer who urged his followers to strive for a radically egalitarian society in which goods were distributed according to need. I almost forgot that he was also seen as a proto-feminist who deals with gender equality and facilitating the oppression of women, and last but not least an accomplished magician who can do extraordinary deeds. That’s a lot, isn’t it? However he died on a cross on Pesach 15 NISAN 3793 AM (AD XXX )accused of sedition.
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