As Protestant devotion increasingly excludes the suffering Christ it also renders idolatrous both pain and compassion, which activate and affect the body that ought to demonstrate submission and obedience, as the writings of Jean Calvin and William Tyndale dictate.
This chapter traces the contours of such waning representation in the disdain for pain and compassion in Protestant theology and practice. This chapter examines the conflict Spenser encountered between the project of exploring vulnerability and the imperatives of religious and cultural life in the wake of the Reformation with respect to declining representations of the suffering Christ.
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