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  2. Imitation of Christ - Wikipedia

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    Jesus Discourses with His Disciples, James Tissot, c. 1890. In Christian theology, the imitation of Christ is the practice of following the example of Jesus. [1] [2] [3] In Eastern Christianity, the term life in Christ is sometimes used for the same concept.

  3. Depiction of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The CGI model created in 2001 depicted Jesus' skin color as being darker and more olive-colored than his traditional depictions in Western art. In 2001, the television series Son of God used one of three first-century Jewish skulls from a leading department of forensic science in Israel to depict Jesus in a new way. [ 80 ]

  4. List of Christian women of the early church - Wikipedia

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    She wrote a prison diary, Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, thought of as a rare surviving example of female Christian writing of that period. [19] Because Perpetua refused to renounce her faith, even at the pleading of her father, and she was a fellow Christian and friend to her servant, she is regarded as one of the women martyrs who ...

  5. Life imitating art - Wikipedia

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    The idea of life imitating art is a philosophical position or observation about how real behaviors or real events sometimes (or even commonly) resemble, or feel inspired by, works of fiction and art. This can include how people act in such a way as to imitate fictional portrayals or concepts, or how they embody or bring to life certain artistic ...

  6. Crucifixion in the arts - Wikipedia

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    Crucifixions and crucifixes have appeared in the arts and popular culture from before the era of the pagan Roman Empire.The crucifixion of Jesus has been depicted in a wide range of religious art since the 4th century CE, frequently including the appearance of mournful onlookers such as the Virgin Mary, Pontius Pilate, and angels, as well as antisemitic depictions portraying Jews as ...

  7. More popular than Jesus - Wikipedia

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    More popular than Jesus" [nb 1] is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music.

  8. Bread of Life Discourse - Wikipedia

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    The title "Bread of Life" (Ancient Greek: ἄρτος τῆς ζωῆς, artos tēs zōēs) given to Jesus is based on this biblical passage which is set in the gospel shortly after the feeding the multitude episode (in which Jesus feeds a crowd of 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish), after which he walks on the water to the ...

  9. Divine providence - Wikipedia

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    According to Martin Luther, divine providence began when God created the world with everything needed for human life, including both physical things and natural laws. [17] In Luther's Small Catechism , the explanation of the first article of the Apostles' Creed declares that everything people have that is good is given and preserved by God ...