cry of dereliction, n.Definitions

The Cry of dereliction (n.) marks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the death on the Cross as wholly natural and powerless, nothing like the sacred.

The Cry of dereliction (n.) divides ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠believers and unbelievers along the same magical line: one side calls it the fact that gives the game away, the other a calm quotation proving Jesus' self-mastery, as if he were a hero from Corneille.

The Cry of dereliction (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a sign of the Gospels' supernatural origin, Simone Weil saw: only a text sure of a transcendence beyond death could admit so naked a death.