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Puritans viewed the sign of the cross as superstitious and idolatrous. [40] Use of the sign of the cross during baptism was defended by King James I at the Hampton Court Conference and by the 1604 Code of Canons, and its continued use was one of many factors in the departure of Puritans from the Church of England. [39]
The Christian cross, seen as representing the crucifixion of Jesus, is a symbol of Christianity. [1] It is related to the crucifix, a cross that includes a corpus (a representation of Jesus' body, usually three-dimensional) and to the more general family of cross symbols.
The lesser, [a] small or little sign of the cross is a variant of the sign of the cross. Its use has been documented in early Christianity by Tertullian , an Ante-Nicene Church Father , who wrote in AD 204 in De Corona ("On Crowns"): "In all our actions, when we come in or go out, when we dress, when we wash, at our meals, before retiring to ...
The Koine Greek terms used in the New Testament of the structure on which Jesus died are stauros (σταυρός) and xylon (ξύλον).These words, which can refer to many different things, do not indicate the precise shape of the structure; scholars have long known that the Greek word stauros and the Latin word crux did not uniquely mean a cross, but could also be used to refer to one, and ...
A cross with a figure of Christ affixed to it is termed a crucifix and the figure is often referred to as the corpus (Latin for "body"). The term Greek cross designates a cross with arms of equal length, as in a plus sign, while the Latin cross designates a cross with an elongated descending arm.
While speaking to auto workers in Belvidere, Illinois, US President Joe Biden made the sign of the cross after mentioning his predecessor, Donald Trump. The gesture was met with laughter and applause.
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The word cross is recorded in 11th-century Old English as cros, exclusively for the instrument of Christ's crucifixion, replacing the native Old English word rood.The word's history is complicated; it appears to have entered English from Old Irish, possibly via Old Norse, ultimately from the Latin crux (or its accusative crucem and its genitive crucis), "stake, cross".