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Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created. Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Roman ...
The term Jesus nut may have been coined by American soldiers in Vietnam; [2] the Vietnam War was the first war to feature large numbers of soldiers riding in helicopters. The term may also have originated with the PBY Catalina, which had two Jesus bolts holding the wing onto the fuselage.
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
The first appearances of fish symbols as adopted in Christian art and literature date to the 2nd century AD. Some modern fish symbol variations, called the Jesus fish, contain the English word Jesus in the center, or are empty entirely. [2] Some Christian Anarchists use an ichthys combined with an anarchist Circle-A as a symbol of their beliefs ...
The original phenomena of this type were acheropites: images of major Christian icons such as Jesus and the Virgin Mary that were believed to have been created by supernatural means. The word acheropite comes from the Greek ἀχειροποίητος , meaning "not created by human hands", and the term was first applied to the Turin Shroud and ...
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In antiquity, the cross, i.e. the instrument of Christ's crucifixion (crux, stauros), was taken to be T-shaped, while the X-shape ("chiasmus") had different connotations.. There has been scholarly speculation on the development of the Christian cross, the letter Chi used to abbreviate the name of Christ, and the various pre-Christian symbolism associated with the chiasmus interpreted in terms ...
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