Abstract
Unamuno was unable to assent intellectually to Catholic doctrines, but the figure of the crucified Christ was, throughout his life, the object of sustained fascination, particularly in the long poetic sequence El Cristo de Velázquez. Yet Unamuno's Christology is characteristically sui generis. For him, Christ is primarily the symbolic representative of humanity and of human suffering, rather than someone entrusted by God with a special mission of salvation. Though Unamuno's Christ is not that of orthodox Christianity, his portayal in this poem restores the human to the centre of religious experience and re-instates a proper appreciation of the place of doubt, feeling, desire and suffering in the discussion of faith.
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