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Obama's raised index finger reminiscent of Jesus instructing the masses at the Sermon on the Mount - master teacher, pantocrator Obama educates America about the righteousness of social vision.
American Thinker 2010
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The film's central theme is the portrayal of the pantocrator, Christ as the new Ruler of the
mollusque commented on the word pantocrator
Above, as big as a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, was the Christ Pantocrator. He curved across the dome like space itself. Unlike the suffering, earthbound Christs depicted at eye level on the church walls, our Christ Pantocrator was clearly transcendent, all-powerful, heaven-bestriding.
--Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Middlesex, p. 12
August 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pantocrator
I do love that book. :-)
August 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word pantocrator
It's a scary kind of word that makes me think of a jack-booted underwear fetishist masquerading as a polytheic proctologist.
September 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pantocrator
Really? It sounds majestic to me.
September 25, 2008