Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
But images of God the Father were not directly addressed in Constantinople in 869. A list of permitted icons was enumerated at this Council, but images of God the Father were not among them. [17] However, the general acceptance of icons and holy images began to create an atmosphere in which God the Father could be depicted. [citation needed]
Cima_da_Conegliano,_God_the_Father.jpg (700 × 544 pixels, file size: 132 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The basis of this iconography is consubstantiality - the doctrine that Jesus and the Father are one. This very image of God the Father is used in New Testament Trinity icons; until the Great Synod of Moscow in 1667 it was a matter of theological debate whether the Ancient of Days from the Book of Daniel was Christ or God
Baroque Trinity, Hendrick van Balen, 1620, (Sint-Jacobskerk, Antwerp) Holy Trinity, fresco by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738–39 (St. Gaudenzio Church at Ivrea). The Trinity is most commonly seen in Christian art with the Holy Spirit represented by a dove, as specified in the gospel accounts of the baptism of Christ; he is nearly always shown with wings outspread.
Raphael's 1518 depiction of Prophet Ezekiel's vision of God the Father in glory. God the Father is a title given to God in Christianity.In mainstream trinitarian Christianity, God the Father is regarded as the first Person of the Trinity, followed by the second person, Jesus Christ the Son, and the third person, God the Holy Spirit. [1]
Images of God the Father were not directly addressed in Constantinople in 869. A list of permitted icons was enumerated at this Council, but symbols of God the Father were not among them. [90] However, the general acceptance of icons and holy images began to create an atmosphere in which God the Father could be symbolized.
Pages in category "God the Father in art" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. The Ancient of Days;
The majority of early Christian art depicts The Holy Spirit in an anthropomorphic form as a human with two other Identical human figures representing God the Father and Jesus Christ. They either sit or they stand grouped together. This is used to portray the unity of the Most Holy Trinity. [7] [8]