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He said that Christian bishops reframed this as a Christian symbol. [ 6 ] The most commonly encountered Christogram in English-speaking countries in modern times is the Χ (or more accurately, Chi), representing the first letter of the word Christ , in such abbreviations as Xmas (for "Christmas") and Xian or Xtian (for "Christian").
Butlin, and nearly all subsequent scholars, have rejected this, as much commentary has centered upon Blake's use of similar images to frame the sequence. Butlin instead rearranges the "original" sequence as 1-2-4-5-3-6, moving The Flight of Moloch to second to last, so that it matches the order of corresponding verses in Milton's poem. [ 5 ]
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The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition. Christian art includes a great many representations of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
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The Chi-Rho is a Christian symbol representing Christ. The abbreviation of Christmas as Xmas is a source of disagreement among Christians who observe the holiday. The December 1957 News and Views published by the Church League of America , a conservative organization co-founded in 1937 by George Washington Robnett, [ 21 ] attacked the use of ...
Further, Jesus Christ himself is called the "image of the invisible God" in Colossians 1:15, [46] and is therefore in one sense an icon. As people are also made in God's images, people are also considered to be living icons, and are therefore "censed" along with painted icons during Orthodox prayer services.