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Author: Neil MacGregor
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this text, Neil MacGregor engages with images of Christ wherever they may be found throughout the world. Through them he follows not only the life of Christ, but also the development of Christian culture since His birth.
Author: Dale Larsen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2006-07-14
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780830830022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGood Shepherd. Branch. Bridegroom. Cornerstone. There are many images of Christ in Scripture. This ten session LifeGuide® Bible Study by Dale and Sandy Larsen examines the various pictures, names and images of Christ in Scripture, leading you to get to know Jesus in new and deeper ways.
Author: Veselin Kesich
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gabriele Finaldi
Publisher: National Gallery Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781857092929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Image of Christ expresses the view that modern secular audiences can engage with the masterpieces of Christian art at an emotional as well as a purely aesthetic or historical level. This book aims to help the viewer understand these pictures by focusing attention on the purpose for which they were made, and explores what they might have meant to their original viewers. The authors trace how a recognizable image of Christ evolved, starting with the earliest symbols and metaphorical images such as the Sheperd, the Lamb and the Vine. They trace the emergence of a "true likeness," emphasizing the importance of the Veronica, the "miraculous portrait" said to have been imprinted on the cloth held out to Jesus on the way to Calvary. They describe how artists conveyed the paradox of Christ's dual nature—human and divine, weak and powerful, victim and victor—in portrayals of his infancy. They also show how images of Christ's suffering during the Passion were intended to convey a cosmic, not just a personal significance. Artists have attempted to put extremes of suffering and despair into an overal context of hope–a vein of hope that runs from the catacombs to Hiroshima and beyond. These are images that speak, even to those who do not hold Christian beliefs. Artists had to make it clear that in representing the life and death of Jesus they were offering a continuing truth; we the spectators have to become eyewitnesses to an event that matters to us now. As a result, the different moments and aspects of Christ's life become, in the hands of great artists, a reflection of all human experience. The Virgin nursing her son expresses the feelings of love every mother has for her child. Christ mocked in innocence beset by violence. Christ risen and appearing to Mary Magdalene is a universal reaffirmation that love cannot be destroyed by death. Beyond their obvious religious significance, these are paintings that have a universal meaning.
Author: Dale Larsen
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2006-01-11
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780830830015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this ten session LifeGuide® Bible Study Dale and Sandy Larsen lead you to examine different biblical pictures of God: rock, warrior, peacemaker, builder, father, husband, potter, etc.
Author: John Givens
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1609092384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him, either by deploying faith explanations that no longer persuade in an age of skepticism or by reducing Christ to a mere argument in an ideological dispute. The writers at the heart of this study understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliché, doctrine, or naïve apologetics. The Christology of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak is thus apophatic because they deploy negative formulations (saying what God is not) in their writings about Jesus. Professions of atheism in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's non-divine Jesus are but separate negative paths toward truer discernment of Christ. This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apophaticism as a theological practice and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also emphasizes the importance of skepticism in Russian literary attitudes toward Jesus on the part of writers whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of the most provocative and enduring images of Christ in world literature. This important study will appeal to scholars and students of Orthodox Christianity and Russian literature, as well as educated general readers interested in religion and nineteenth-century Russian novels.
Author: Martin Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0199581118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the origins and evolution of eleven visual iconic images still found in today's culture, including Jesus, the Coke bottle, and Einstein's famous equation, e equals mc squared.
Author: Kent P. Jackson
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 888
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume--the work of a lifetime--brings together all the Joseph Smith Translation manuscript in a remarkable and useful way. Now, for the first time, readers can take a careful look at the complete text, along with photos of several actual manuscript pages. The book contains a typographic transcription of all the original manuscripts, unedited and preserved exactly as dictated by the Prophet Joseph and recorded by his scribes. In addition, this volume features essays on the background, doctrinal contributions, and editorial procedures involved in the Joseph Smith Translation, as well as the history of the manuscripts since Joseph Smith's day.
Author: Oddbjørn Leirvik
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-05-27
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1441181601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive and contemporary exploration of the role of Jesus in both Islam and Christianity and issues of dialogue in Christian-Muslim relations.
Author: Mark Mabry
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781606410271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if you could have been there the night of Christ's birth? Or the day of His baptism? What would it have been like to sit at His feet while He taught the people the sinners, the children, the apostles? What would the sky have looked like over Gethsemane? Photographer Mark Mabry re-creates authentic, meridian-of-time scenes using both full-color and black-and-white photographs. This first-of-a-kind book showcases twenty-five scenes of the life of Christ. From the Nativity to His miracles to His death and resurrection, these unique portrayals, accompanied by New Testament scripture, offer a powerful witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Included in the book are behind-the-scenes author notes, providing readers with an intimate glimpse into the making of each photograph. Stunning and sacred, Reflections of Christ is an ideal coffee-table book that is filled with images that millions of people have already experienced and grown to love. It is a book that Christian families will be proud to have in their homes.
