Talk:Passion (Christianity)
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Eloi, eloi lama sacachthani in the references should be changed to Eloi, eloi lama sabachthani in the references. I'm not sure how to do this, though.
I have removed the following from the article:
- Once associated with sin and crime, the concept of passion as wholehearted devotion to an idea or to an ideology has become part of the stock-in-trade of New Agers wishing to gush about their fashionable fads. Business managers, defining a mythical ideal employee, now demand passionate commitment. The emotional intensity-level of teenagers has replaced the detached realism of sober rational adults as a societal aspiration in some such circles.
- (Compare fandom in popular culture.)
To me, this looks like yet another anti-new age rant - do New Age-ists really use the word in a way any different to anybody else - combined with a bit of social misanthropy. Charming, but not for the wikipedia, methinks. --Camembert
OK, now I see why crime was added. Should have read the talk before I edited the article. I will remove both love and crime.
If I understand Etymonline correctly, already in Late Latin there were two different meanings of "passio":
- suffering, enduring; from Latin pati
- intense emotion; from rendering Greek pathos. Attested usage of "passion" meaning emotion in English from 1374.
In short: not all meanings derive from the former. --Nikai
- "Late Latin" means 4th century and later Latin, the Latin of the Christianized Empire of Late Antiquity. I am restoring the accurate information that was deleted by Nikai. On the whole, the better sort of Wikipedians delete with a cautious hand. --Wetman 14:32, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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- You apparently don't accept the fact that there is more than one source (one Latin, one Greek), but you didn't care to explain why. The point, by the way, is only that there is more than one source. If you did accept this, we would agree that the last sentence of the first paragraph, which you just restored, is plain wrong.
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- You've misread Etymonline, which explicitly states that passio is a Late Latin rendering of Greek pathos. Pathos is just not part of the etymology of passio in the sense that this article discusses. No real need to reach for possible proto-Indo-European roots either. (Wetman 20:07, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC))
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- I object to the language used in the first paragraph. I feel offended by the term "informal or colloquial context". This sentence gives the impression that the use of "passion" in any other context than the suffering of Jesus would be somehow incorrect.
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- It's just a clarifying remark that would send a reader who's looking for other meanings back to Passion (disambiguation), which makes it all plain and clear. (Wetman 20:07, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC))
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- I object to the naming of the article. In my opinion "passion" should be a disambiguation page, primarily because of people who unsuspectingly link to "passion" in another context than the suffering of Jesus.
- I disagree with you in respect to editing style. I remove information which I consider wrong, one time, and will continue to do so. However, I don't fight. You reverted me twice. I didn't revert you. If I feel offended by your content, others may feel similarly. Maybe one of them is more passionate about it. No need to waste any more of my time. Have a nice day.--Nikai
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- The better sort of Wikipedians realize that sometimes what one "considers wrong" might possibly be misinformed. When one realizes that, one does what one can to set things right. (Wetman 20:07, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC))
[edit] The Passion of Christ
Just found this article and have worked on it.
Sorry guys! but I must say that the English expression here was clumsy. please remember that people with limited English also read these pages.
- highly abreviated language like "Thorn coronation" doesn't work because it is neither a common expression, a biblical expression or clear. It's merely short. "Crown of Thorns" is far more meaningful.I removed several of these, reversed things (with the addition of a little word here and there like "of". Another example is "metal studded whip" instead of "whip with metal studs" It's about clarity.
- there is a lot of interesting information inserted in the wrong places. The paragraph that relates the Passion as it is written in the gospels is not the right place for lengthy dissertations on every aspect of the passion, including archeological details. These interesting asides all have a place under a different heading, and I have put them there, but unfortunately lost some of the references, which I will endeavour to fix.
- Unless you are writing a novel, its best to dispense with descriptive words like "stated" and "argued" when what is really called for is "said", even if it is boring and repetetive. I removed a few of these, including one "Jesus argued" when, in fact, Jesus wasn't making an argument in any sense of the word. He made a statement of fact, followed by another statement which may be considered prophetic.
Now, what I REALLY need to know is, why on earth is this page called Passion (Christianity) instead of the name that it is actually known by - The "Passion of Christ"? I would not let the fact that there has been a movie of that name put me off. It seems like a really strange and clumsy decision. I suppose there is a reason. I won't change it, without feedback.
My spelling is hopeless! So are my typos. Could someone please correct them?
--Amandajm 04:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- Because Christ is a title applied to Jesus ONLY by Christians, and thus is hugely biased to include that in an article title. To call something ..... of The Christ presumes that the person in question actually is a Christ, and is the only Christ, both of which are biased pro-mainstream-Christianity positions. Wikipedia has a policy of Neutral point of view, and so such article titles are not permitted unless they are actual published names of documents etc. (e.g. the title of a book). Clinkophonist 12:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
