Laughter at the Foot of the Cross.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: June 1, 1998| Author: Foster, Charles | Copyright information

M. A. Screech. Allen lane. [pounds]30.00. iSBN 0-713-99012-0

Laughter, the early naturalists said, is a defining characteristic of man. But he is born weeping. Aristotle noted that children do not laugh normal laughs until the fortieth day. To be born laughing, as Zoroaster was, is to be born monstrous. To die laughing is to die strangely. The Gospels record Jesus weeping, but never laughing. He mocked the wicked, though, and no doubt slapped His thighs as He drank with the w...

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