I came across the following album cover yesterday and couldn’t resist posting it in tribute to my brother John.
For the past few years, John has been diligently exploring the intersection of historical Anglicanism and the (international) Disco movement of the late 1970s. His findings, of which there are many, can be found on his amazing blog, John Camp.
John’s presence on the web doesn’t end there, though. The first 12″ of his DJ work was released in the UK last week (here), and as part of his day job at Church of the Holy Cross in Charleston, South Carolina, his sermons are being posted online. Don’t delay!
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Clifford Swartz says:
Jan 31, 2008
DZ — there are two interesting and unusual influences in that album cover. One is high culture, the other low.
The first is the painting by Dali, “Christ of St John of the Cross”, which seems to be showing great saving work of Jesus for the whole world, but actually shows a gnostic Jesus, in so far as Jesus is not actually being crucified (like the astronaut, floats next to the cross, but isn’t fixed to it).
The second is a joke that goes back at least to the 70′s, in which Jesus, after giving his instructions to John to care for his mother, beckons Peter to come closer. Peter struggles by centurions, but is thrown back. Jesus beckons him, “Peter, come closer”, Peter fights his way forward. Bruised and straining against the soldiers, Peter says, “Yes, Lord, I have come, what do you want to say?”. Jesus says, “Peter, Peter…I can see your house from here.” Of course, that doesn’t work at so many levels, but I often heard that joke from Roman Catholic friends, and later reflected that it was their way of working out the constant presence of crucifixes in their schools, churches, etc. So besides being in bad taste, it reminds me of the good news of the empty cross and empty tomb…