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What did Jesus Mean? Interpreting the Gospel through a Universal Language

Jerusha McCormack on the work of Anna Wierzbicka. After her brief excursion into the caves at Marabar, Mrs. Moore sits down, wishing to rest – not (as she thinks at first) from the exertion of climbing in the relentless Indian sun – but to overcome an inner turmoil that deepens with every passing minute. With the echo of the caves still resonating in her head, as a good Anglican she tries to pray. But, as the narrator comments, “when Religion appeared… she knew that all its divine words from ‘Let there be light’ to ‘It is finished’” amounted to little more than the caves’ endless ‘boum’.

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Jerusha McCormack

Since retiring from University College Dublin, has lectured as Honorary Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University and as Visiting Academic at TCD’s Asian Studies Centre.