Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
The dean of Trinity College, located within the University of Cambridge, recently claimed that the indefensible views held by one junior research fellow at the institution were “legitimate” after the student alleged that Jesus Christ could have been transgender during a sermon.
Attendees who went to hear a Biblically founded message left “in tears” according to the Telegraph, members said that children present during the service were “visibly uncomfortable” while others said to have felt “violated.”
The junior fellow, Joshua Heath, displayed multiple paintings depicting Christ from multiple eras in an effort to support his outrageous claims. Among the paintings were Jean Malouel’s 1400 work “Pieta,” and Henri Maccheroni’s 1990 work “Christs.” According the the Telegraph, Heath also “told worshippers that in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, from the 14th century, this side wound was isolated and ‘takes on undecidedly . . . [feminine] appearance.’”
The sermon included several explicit references and visual depictions of reproductive organs, both male and female. The student concluded his sermon by stating, “In Christ’s simultaneously masculine and feminine body in these works, if the body of Christ as these works suggest the body of all bodies, then his body is also the trans body.” The congregation was visibly and verbally outraged by the claims.
When responding to the frustration as a result of the highly inappropriate claims and statements made by the student, the Trinity College dean, Dr. Michael Banner, “defended how the sermon ‘suggested that we might think about these images of Christ’s male/female body as providing us with ways of thinking about issues around transgender questions today.'”
The ideology of transgenderism has pervaded schools and churches within the United States, drag queens have danced for high school students during chapel in New York and have led sermons in Florida. Ironically, the transgender worldview relies heavily on the use of “preferred pronouns.” In other words, people should address an individual using whichever pronouns they would like to be addressed with, whether those be biologically or grammatically accurate — or in most cases, not. The Christian Bible makes it abundantly clear that God, and His Son Jesus Christ use He/Him pronouns. It should go without saying, but so-called Christian believers today should refrain from questioning the gender identity of Christ.
“[I] would not issue an invitation to someone who I thought would deliberately seek to shock or offend a congregation or who could be expected to speak against the Christian faith. The sermon explored the nature of religious art, in the spirit of thought-provoking academic inquiry, and in keeping with open debate and dialogue at the University of Cambridge.”
Trinity College Dean, Dr. Michael Banner
