Queen’s former chaplain, others call ‘perverse’ Cambridge sermon on ‘trans’ Jesus: ‘Disgusting and shameful’

The former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II joined a chorus of reaction to a recent sermon at the University of Cambridge in the UK that spoke of Jesus Christ’s “trans body” and compared the wound in his side to a vagina.

“Christianity teaches us that Jesus comes to make us more like him, that’s the deal,” Gavin Ashenden, who served as chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until he resigned in 2017, told GB News. And as long as you find someone who makes Jesus more like them, that’s not the problem.”

The Reverend Michael Banner, who serves as Dean of Trinity College, last week came to the defense of Joshua Heath, a Cambridge junior researcher who proclaimed from the pulpit in Trinity College Chapel during an Evensong service that portraits do not erotic depictions of Jesus’ penis in historical art “call for a welcoming rather than hostile response to the raised voices of trans people.”

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Heath claimed that in the 14th-century prayer book of Bonne of Luxembourg, shown here, the depiction of Jesus’ side wound “takes on a decidedly vaginal aspect.”
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Heath, whose PhD in theology was supervised by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, also claimed that in one of the medieval paintings he showed the congregation, the spear wound in Jesus’ side “takes on a decidedly vaginal”. In another, he pointed out how blood from his side flows into his groin.

Heath’s sermon left outraged congregants “weeping” and shouting “Heresy!” rang out in the chapel as some outraged worshipers left in disgust. Banner responded to a letter of complaint from an offended congregant claiming that Heath’s sermon led to “legitimate” speculation. according to the Daily Telegraph.

“So what happened at Cambridge was a reverse process and a perverse process, and we shouldn’t be surprised, because academia is like that sometimes,” Ashenden said. “They don’t know when to stop.”

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Ashenden, a former Church of England priest who joined the Roman Catholic Church because of what he described as anti-Christian cultural Marxism seeping into the Anglican Communion, urged academics to offer “a egalitarian” to religious figures.

Gavin Ashenden, above, served as chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II from 2008 until he resigned in 2017 and left the Church of England, citing his anti-Christian cultural Marxism.
(Gavin Ashenden)

“They ought not to do to Jesus what they would not do to Muhammad under the present circumstances, and they have very seriously overstepped the mark of equality of religion in treating our Lord and Savior in such a casual and peremptory manner,” he say Ashenden. .

“It is perfectly right for Christians to object,” he added. “I’m very happy that stronger language is being used to try to give them some sense of proportion.”

Ashenden made his comments during an interview with GB News host Calvin Robinson, himself an Anglican deacon in the breakaway Free Church of England. He recently told Fox News Digital how, after studying for the priesthood at Oxford University, his ordination in the “totally liberal” Church of England was allegedly “taken away” because of his theological views conservatives

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Heath noted that in Jean Malouel’s 13th-century Pietà, the blood from Jesus’ side flows into his groin.
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Robinson echoed Ashenden’s assessment of the Cambridge sermon, telling Fox News Digital: “Jesus Christ was true God and true man. All Christians accept that truth, as stated in the creeds.”

“The Bible teaches us that Christ was born a man, and he himself taught us to call God “our Father”. For someone to deceive Christ and God the Father in this way is offensive; for a clergyman to do so is scandalous blasphemy” , Robinson continued.

Robinson said Banner “should be tried under the ecclesiastical courts for heresy” but predicted that would never happen “because the Church of England would rather upset Christians than risk upsetting the trans community”.

The Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose Great Court is pictured, recently defended a sermon comparing Jesus’ side wound to a vagina as “legitimate” speculation.
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“The only way Christ can be described as ‘trans’ is in the context that he transcends, is transcendent, or transfigures,” Robinson added.

Heath’s sermon and Banner’s response also drew a sharp rebuke from evangelist and Samaritan’s Purse CEO Franklin Graham, who described the sermon’s sentiments as “repulsive and shameful” in a Monday Facebook post.

“To imply that Jesus Christ, the Holy Son of God, is transgender or to somehow sexualize his sacrificial death on the cross for the sins of mankind is total heresy,” wrote Graham, whose father Billy Graham dined at private with a famous Christian author. CS Lewis at Cambridge University in 1955.

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Evangelist Franklin Graham, whose father Billy Graham met privately with Christian author CS Lewis at Cambridge University in 1955, reprimanded Trinity College, Cambridge, for a sermon he called “disgraceful and repulsive “, “blasphemous” and an example of “absolute heresy”. .”
(Billy Graham Evangelistic Association)

“No wonder parishioners at Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge said they were disgusted, tearful, outraged and distressed after hearing this blasphemous message. The Bible warns us about false teachers,” continued Graham .

“This speaker and the dean of Cambridge University who defended him are false teachers who preach heresy,” added Graham, who went on to say that parishioners need to hear God’s Word from the pulpit rather than interpret the ‘art like Heath. offered

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“The Bible tells us that Jesus was fully God and fully man and that through him all things are made and restored,” said Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Center (CLC) in London. “Any suggestion that he is transgender is a supreme insult to the Redeemer of the world. The dean of a Cambridge university should know better.”

CLC recently took legal action against Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, for allegedly refusing to allow them to book a conference for young Christians on the basis that CLC’s traditional Christian religious beliefs about marriage were not adequately inclusive.

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Trinity College did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment by press time.