Theology Students Given Trigger Warning Before Studying Christ's Crucifixion
By Kieran Corcoran | 3:16 am, January 6, 2017
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/theo...s-crucifixion/
University students
studying the death of Christ are being given
trigger warnings before being shown images of the Crucifixion.
Theology undergraduates studying an introductory Bible course at the highly-regarded University of Glasgow are being warned that the execution
may distress them.
They are given the opportunity to skip lectures entirely if they are too
fearful that the
Biblical imagery may upset them....
...One particular lecture – on Jesus and cinema – comes with the a warning that it "contains graphic scenes of the crucifixion... this is flagged up to students beforehand".
According to an online course specification, around 50 students a year take the lectures.
Heightened sensitivities around the image –
arguably the most famous scene in all Western culture – is the latest in a slew of trigger warnings related to fundamental parts of university courses.
Trigger warnings have also been given to
criminal law students who don't want to hear about rape, and
archaeology students who are upset by skeletons....