![]() ![]() Think of Bernhard Plockhorst’s popular “Jesus Blessing the Children” (1885). The Savior became all love and motherly hugs: humble, pure, tender, comforting, truly “gentle Jesus, meek and mild.” Prothero points out that the artwork American Protestants hung in their homes reflected this. ![]() In Victorian 19th century, the emphasis was on feminine virtue and its role in civilizing both the home and the larger society. Let’s take Prothero’s archetype of the Sweet Savior. Mormon Elder Brother won’t resonate with many, with the possible exception of the struggling non-Mormon youth pastor marooned in Latter-day-Saint country, such as rural Utah or Idaho.īut there is plenty of evidence that modern-day Christians — even those who tout their allegiance to Sola Scriptura — are guilty of cutting and pasting together their own versions of a Jesus to fit their predispositions. Those who profess a commitment to biblical revelation might click their tongues at the deistic, moralistic concepts of Jesus the Enlightened Sage — famously exemplified by the likes of Thomas Jefferson and his miracle-free, oh-so-18th-century Jefferson Bible. Sweet Savior, Manly Redeemer, the Superstar, Mormon Elder Brother, Black Moses, Rabbi and Oriental Christ. Prothero argues that there have been eight major archetypes of Jesus portrayed in the course of the American experiment: Jesus as the Enlightened Sage, the Prothero’s American Jesus, in particular, does a splendid job of bringing to light some of the widespread conceptions of Jesus that have been popular in U.S. The problem is telling the difference between lifting up the universally relevant Jesus Christ and squeezing Him into culturally constructed roles as a shill for everything from candy bars to political platforms.Īmericans seem to have unique problems with remaking Jesus in their own images, as we see in two recent books: Richard Wightman Fox’s Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession (HarperSanFrancisco, 2004) and Stephen Prothero’s American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003). Jesus Himself was quoted in John 12:32 as saying, “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me” (KJV). He is the Son of God, Son of Man, King of Kings, the Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Word, the Light, the Alpha and Omega, the Vine, the Lily of the Valley and on and on. After all, the Bible provides us with well over a hundred names, titles, descriptors and word pictures of Jesus. To leave messages of condolence for the family, visit the funeral home website at Published in The Messenger 5.10.In some ways, this profusion of Jesuses shouldn’t be all that surprising. He was also preceded in death by his great-grandson, Rowan Ward and his brother, Billy Gene Grisham. He is also survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Gina and Joe Ward of Rives his son and daughter-in-law, Steve and Crystal Grisham of Newbern and six grandchildren, Trey Ward and wife, Rachel, of White House, Blaine Ward of Jackson, Morgan Walker and husband, Spencer, of Murfreesboro, Allison Hodges and husband, Blake, of Nashville, Brock Grisham of Martin and Tyce Grisham of Newbern. ![]() He was a lifetime farmer and a member of the Church of Christ. She survives.īuddy was a 1957 graduate of the former Hornbeak High School. ![]() Hime, Ricky Conner, Frankie Cheatham, Kenneth Orr, Hollis Woody, Tootie Abernathy, Clint Gantt, Keith Forrester and Dewayne Richards.īuddy was born May 4, 1938, in Obion County, son of the late Paul Jernigan and Emma Irene (Woody) Grisham. Honorary pallbearers will be James “Dawg” Daniels, W.T. Pallbearers will be Trey Ward, Blaine Ward, Brock Grisham, Royce Stanley, Tim Blackley, Randy Cole and Roy Lucas. Visitation will be held at the funeral home Thursday, May 11, 2023, from 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 12, 2023, in the chapel of Edmaiston Mosley Funeral Home. Monday, May 1, 2023, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City.įuneral services will be conducted 3 p.m. Charles Woody “Buddy” Grisham, 84, of Rives passed away 8:45 p.m. ![]()
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