Laughter at the Foot of the Cross

Laughter is the property of man; laughter is an evil world; Christian humanists; Jewish and gentile "schoolmasters"; the mocking of the crucified king; the Old Testament gospel; words and their meanings; the mocking of Christ in the Old Testament; unholy railing; good holy railing; Diasyrm; a god who laughs to scorn; Erasmus on Diasyrm; the laughter of Jesus and the laughter of the Father in the New Testament; more irony from Jesus; pitiless laughter at ugliness; ignorance or madness? the importance of a gamma; madman laughs at madman; laughing at Christ and laughing at Carabba; laughing back; Christ as divine madman; madness providentially feigned by David - a Silenus; Theophylact and a lunatic's chains; laughing with the Great Cardinal of Saint-Cher; Jesus in ecstatic madness; lessons in exegesis; Plato and Christian madness; drunk with God and drunk with wine; Christ's mad disciples - erotic madness; the philosophy of Christ; the foolishness of God; Socrates; Christian laughter all but nipped in the bud - Eutrapely condemned; the gospel according to Lucian - Christianity is once again stupid and mad; Lucian in the pulpit; a taste of Lucianic laughter in the "Colloquies"; laughter in the Annotations; he who calleth his brother a fool; fools in cap-and-bells?; caps and bells sneak in; obscure men; Dutch wit, Gallic licence and the liturgical year; Christian wit and Christian comedy - "the great jester of France"; Christian laughter at Shrovetide; seeking for signs; Christian laughter for faithful folk; laughter at the philosophy of Christ; God's coadjucators - deed and words and Christian laughter; laughing at idolatry; laughter and Christian mythology; gluttony; realist laughter - laughter and eternity; charity and joy.