A Cambridge University college dean has been accused of heresy after backing a sermon that suggested Jesus Christ had a “trans body”.
Michael Banner, of Trinity College, said such a view was “legitimate” after congregation members were left “in tears” by a sermon at evensong.
The address at Trinity College chapel was delivered by Joshua Heath, a junior research fellow, who supported his claim by showing three medieval and renaissance paintings of the Crucifixion, depicting a side wound that the guest preacher likened to a vagina.
Heath, whose PhD was supervised by the Right Rev Lord Williams of Oystermouth, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, also told worshippers that in The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, from the 14th century, the wound was isolated.
