To write of spiritual style without acknowledging of what that spirituality consists, from whence it is born, is misguided. God may be dead, and European religion may have passed away with him. But whatever their motivations, the likes of Stations of the Cross bear witness to the ways in which Christianity - its forms, its aesthetics, its ways of thinking and feeling - are constitutive of our collective subconscious. The value of suffering and guilt, the cult of love, the shock of materialism: these come to us from Christianity, they are in our blood, our bones. And just as Idas buried skeletons inevitably will surface, so our religious past returns to haunt us. To paraphrase Calvarys Father James, Christianitys time will never be gone. -C.W. [S&S vol. 24 issue 12]
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