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Oct 8, 2021 · The exhibition, made up of more than 50 paintings, African and Chinese sculptures, and orthodox icons, seeks to challenge the Western depiction of Jesus Christ and his followers. The Dean says: “We are very familiar with pictures of Jesus Christ cast in our Western European image.
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?
- 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, ...
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.
Was Jesus vaguely Arabic looking? Probably, but possibly not. But Jesus isn’t just for one culture – He came and is for everyone. In cultures around the world, he looks the part. Check out these depictions of the Son of God from various ethnicities.
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Dec 25, 2011 · Historical accuracy is not the point; the point is to see Jesus as the Savior of your own people, as incarnated very close to you, and relevant to life today. Here are nineteen contextualizations of the Nativity painted within the last century.
