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Jun 13, 2024 · Christians must be warned about the dangers of false or idolatrous images. But we can also be encouraged to use proper depictions of Jesus for personal enrichment, discipleship, and outreach.
- An Elusive Face
- Have You Seen This Man?
- Normalising The Extraordinary
- Will We Ever Know?
The question of what Jesus looked like is complicated by the absence of any description of his physical qualities in early Christian texts. This isn’t because appearance in general wasn’t important in antiquity; indeed, we have a description of the apostle Paul in a third century narrative about his work. Acts of Paul and Thecla (2.3), an apocrypha...
The earliest pictures we have of Jesus come from frescoes painted on the walls of catacombs and carvings made to decorate stone coffins. These pictures generally come from the third century, about 200 years after Jesus’s death, so none of them could have been done by an eyewitness to the living Jesus. This fresco, painted on the wall of a third-cen...
It is no surprise that many contemporary depictions of Jesus show him as representing what is upheld by Western standards of “normative” (that is, culturally imposed and valued) male beauty. This goes equally for formal portraits displayed in places of worship and for the phenomenon of pareidolia, images of Christ (or other revered figures) that pe...
Finally, why do we keep asking ourselves what Jesus looked like? As Michael Peppard notes in his article, “Was the Presence of Christ in Statues? The Challenge of Divine Media for a Jewish Roman God”, the desire to know what Jesus looked like is far from uniquely a post-modern quest; in the 19th century, Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, ...
Sep 26, 2014 · Want to see how Jesus is making his impact across the world? Here are 12 photos of Jesus taken within the last year.
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Do images of Jesus offer reassurance and neurological stimulation? Do they fulfil a theological quest? Are they a natural result of an incarnational theology or a desire to have a personal relationship with the Divine?
Nov 2, 2021 · A landmark exhibition of over 40 works of art, sculpture, and images from artists such as Mark Cazalet, Peter Eugene Ball, and Lorna May Wadsworth will challenge our perceptions of how Jesus Christ and other people of faith are depicted.
Apr 11, 2022 · Here are 13 beautiful photos of some of the places and cities where the Savior may have walked during his mortal ministry.
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Apr 9, 2024 · Jesus In Photos – The Mid-Century Years. Early images of Jesus look not much the Jesus we see today and in the Turin Shroud. Back then he was bushy haired and youthful, soft-bodied like the Jesus at the Arian Baptistery, hopeful and free. The face was based on the best looking heathen gods.
