The former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II joined a chorus of backlash to a recent sermon at Cambridge University in the UK that spoke of the “trans body” of Jesus Christ and compared the wound in his side to a vagina.
“Christianity teaches us that Jesus can make us more like him, that’s the deal,” Gavin Ashenden, who served as the queen’s chaplain from 2008 until stepping down in 2017, told GB News. that makes Jesus more like them, that’s not the deal.”
The Reverend Dr Michael Banner, who serves as dean of Trinity College, came out last week in defense of Joshua Heath, a junior scholar at Cambridge who proclaimed from the Trinity College chapel pulpit during an evening service that performances were not erotica of Jesus’ penis in historical art “urge a welcoming rather than a hostile response to the voices of trans people.”
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Heath claimed that in the 14th-century Luxembourg Bonne Prayer Book, shown here, the depiction of the wound in Jesus’ side “takes on a decidedly vaginal appearance”.
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Heath, whose doctorate in divinity was supervised by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, also claimed that in one of the medieval paintings he showed the congregation, the spear wound in Jesus’ side “takes on a decidedly vaginal appearance”. In another, he pointed out how blood from his side flows into his groin.
Heath’s sermon reportedly left outraged congregants “in tears” and chants of “Heresy!” echoed through the chapel as some outraged worshipers left in disgust. Banner responded to a letter of complaint from an offended congregation member stating that Heath’s sermon raised “legitimate” speculation, according to the Daily Telegraph.
“So what happened in Cambridge was a reverse and perverse process, and we shouldn’t be surprised, because academia is like that sometimes,” Ashenden said. “They don’t know when to stop.”
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Ashenden, a former Church of England priest who joined the Roman Catholic Church because of what he described as anti-Christian cultural Marxism seeping into the Anglican Communion, urged academics to offer “equal treatment” to the figures. religious.
Gavin Ashenden, above, served as Queen Elizabeth II’s chaplain from 2008 until he resigned in 2017 and left the Church of England, citing what he described as his anti-Christian “cultural Marxism.”
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“They shouldn’t do to Jesus what they wouldn’t do to Muhammad under the current circumstances, and they have grossly exceeded the mark of religious equality by treating our Lord and Savior in such a casual and peremptory manner,” Ashenden said. .
“It is perfectly correct for Christians to oppose it,” he added. “I’m very pleased that stronger language was used to try to give them some sense of proportion.”
Ashenden made his comments during an interview with GB News presenter Calvin Robinson, who is an Anglican deacon in the breakaway Free Church of England. She recently explained to Fox News Digital how, after studying for the priesthood at Oxford University, his ordination into the “totally liberal” Church of England was allegedly “snatched away” due to his conservative theological views.
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Heath noted that in Jean Malouel’s 13th-century Pietà, blood from Jesus’ side flows into his groin.
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Robinson echoed Ashenden’s assessment of the Cambridge sermon, telling Fox News Digital: “Jesus Christ was true God and true man. All Christians accept this truth, as stated in the creeds.”
“The Bible teaches us that Christ was born a man, and he himself taught us to call God ‘Our Father.’ For someone to confuse Christ and God the Father in this way is offensive; For a cleric to do so is outrageously blasphemous,” Robinson continued.
Robinson said Banner “should be tried for heresy in ecclesiastical courts” but predicted that would never happen “because the Church of England would rather upset Christians than risk upsetting the trans community.”
The dean of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose Great Court is pictured, recently defended a sermon comparing the wound in Jesus’ side to a vagina as “legitimate” speculation.
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“The only way that Christ can be described as ‘trans’ is in the context of him transcending, being transcendent, or transfigured,” Robinson added.
Heath’s sermon and Banner’s response also drew a sharp rebuke from evangelist and Samaritan’s Purse CEO Franklin Graham, who described the sermon’s sentiments as “repulsive and shameful” in a Monday Facebook post.
“To imply that Jesus Christ, the Holy Son of God, is transgender or in any way sexualize His sacrificial death on the Cross for the sins of mankind is utter heresy,” wrote Graham, whose father, Billy Graham, dined privately with the famous christian author CS Lewis at Cambridge University in 1955.
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Evangelist Franklin Graham, whose father Billy Graham met privately with Christian author CS Lewis at Cambridge University in 1955, has chastised Trinity College Cambridge for a sermon he called “shameful and repulsive,” “blasphemous” and a example of “absolute heresy”. .”
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“No wonder parishioners at Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge said they were disgusted, weeping, outraged and distraught after hearing this blasphemous message. The Bible warns us about false teachers,” Graham continued.
“This speaker and the dean of Cambridge University who defended him are false teachers preaching heresy,” added Graham, who went on to say that parishioners need to hear God’s Word from the pulpit rather than artistic interpretation like Heath. offered.
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“The Bible tells us that Jesus was fully God and fully man and through him all things were made and restored,” said Andrea Williams, executive director of the London-based Christian Legal Center (CLC). “Any suggestion that he is transgender is a supreme insult to the world’s Redeemer. The dean of a Cambridge college should know better.”
CLC recently took legal action against Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, for allegedly refusing to allow them to book a conference for young Christians on the grounds that CLC’s traditional Christian beliefs regarding marriage were not adequately inclusive.
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Trinity College did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by press time.
