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The use of religious images has often been a contentious issue in Christian history. Concern over idolatry is the driving force behind the various traditions of aniconism in Christianity. In the early Church, Christians used the Ichthys (fish) symbol to identify Christian places of worship and Christian homes. [1]
While some Anglicans (typically of the Low-Church variety) maintain the aniconism of the English Reformation, articulated in the religious injunctions of Edward VI [8] and Elizabeth I, [9] as well as the Homily against the Peril of Idolatry and the Superfluous Decking of Churches, [10] other Anglicans, influenced by the Oxford Movement and ...
In the early Church, two nails were posited by St. Ambrose (that is, omitting any in the feet); [1] notably in Ambrose's De obitu Theodosii. [2] Nonnus of Panopolis, in his paraphrase of the Gospel of John, has the crowd cry for Jesus to be crucified upon “four spikes” (19:15) but eventually hung with only three, “a single nail ...
A Coventry Cross of Nails (in German, Nagelkreuz von Coventry) is a Christian cross made from iron nails, employed as a symbol of peace and reconciliation. The original version was made from three large medieval nails salvaged from the Coventry Cathedral after the building was severely damaged by German bombs on 14 November 1940, during the ...
Most Christians have read about the earliest days of the church, found in the opening chapters of Acts and the collection of Epistles. The moment we read about in Acts Chapter 2 almost reads like ...
Most Christian groups use or have used art to some extent, including early Christian art and architecture and Christian media. Images of Jesus and narrative scenes from the Life of Christ are the most common subjects, and scenes from the Old Testament play a part in the art of most denominations.
Why, we might reform this world and its institutions without firing a shot or carrying a placard or sweeping a primary. But we’re not likely to find out. I don’t claim I’ve managed to live ...
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