Professor John Dally first taught “The Death of the Beautiful Young Man” in 2008 and has offered it three times since. The course looks at images of the death of Jesus through the lens of race, physical appearance, and sexuality, and asks how these categories affect our notion of salvation.
In the fall of 2016, he decided it was time to write the book. To keep his nose to the grindstone, he offered weekly videocasts tracking his progress, kind of like “The Biggest Loser” for writing.
Photo Caption: Camille Felix Bellanger, “Abel,” 1874.
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