Christian Symbols, Ancient & Modern
Author | : Heather Child |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 196? |
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Author | : Heather Child |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 196? |
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Author | : Heather Child |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Christian art and symbolism |
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Author | : Heather Child |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Mike Aquilina |
Publisher | : Our Sunday Visitor |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2008-08-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1592767745 |
Imagine the dangerous life of an early Christian. You've embraced your newfound faith in Christ but fear the risk of persecution or death at the hands of the pagans living around you. Then a trusted friend tells you about some of Jesus' followers who secretly meet. He whispers into your ear, "Look for a fish carved in a paving stone" by a certain home on the Via Tiburtina. You smile in gratitude. Still today, modern society recognizes those Christian symbols that kept the early Christians safely connected: they appear on churches, bumper stickers, mugs -- even mints and stuffed animals. Yet we are often ignorant of the rich meaning of these symbols: their origins in Scripture, in ancient culture, and in the preaching of the Church Fathers. In this book, noted author Mike Aquilina conducts an intriguing and insightful tour of the symbols that expressed the life and devotion of the Church through the first four centuries of its existence. He explains how Christians freely borrowed pagan and Jewish symbols, giving them new, distinctly Christian meanings. Recover the zeal of our spiritual ancestors as you learn to read their symbolic language -- and discover the impact the symbols still have on your life today. More than a hundred illustrations, reproduced by artist Lea Marie Ravotti from the ancient originals, beautifully complement the text. View a mulitmedia presentation and listen to an interview of the author here.
Author | : Thomas Inman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Buddhist art and symbolism |
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Author | : Thomas Inman |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3846052981 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author | : Thomas Inman John Newton |
Publisher | : anboco |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-08-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3736405677 |
It may, we think, be taken for granted, that nothing is, or has ever been, adopted into the service of Religion, without a definite purpose. If it be supposed that a religion is built upon the foundation of a distinct revelation from the Almighty, as the Hebrew is said to be, there is a full belief that every emblem, rite, ceremony, dress, symbol, etc., has a special signification. Many earnest Christians, indeed, see in Judaic ordinances a reference to Jesus of Nazareth. I have, for example, heard a pious man assert that "leprosy" was only another word for "sin"; but he was greatly staggered in this belief when I pointed out to him that if a person's whole body was affected he was no longer unclean (Lev. xiii. 13), which seemed on the proposed hypothesis to demonstrate that when a sinner was as black as hell he was the equal of a saint. According to such an interpreter, the paschal lamb is a type of Jesus, and consequently all whom his blood sprinkles are blocks of wood, lintels, and side-posts (Exod. xii. 22, 28). By the same style of metaphorical reasoning, Jesus was typified by the "scape-goat," and the proof is clear, for one was driven away into the wilderness, and the other voluntarily went there—one to be destroyed, the other to be tempted by the devil! Hence we infer that there is nothing repugnant to the minds of the pious in an examination respecting the use of symbols, and into that which is shadowed forth by them. What has been done for Judaism may be attempted for other forms of religion. As the Hebrews and Christians believe their religion to be God-given, so other nations, having a different theology, regard their own peculiar tenets. Though we may, with that unreasoning prejudice and blind bigotry which are common to the Briton and the Spaniard, and pre-eminently so to the mass of Irish and Scotchmen amongst ourselves, and to the Carlists in the peninsula, disbelieve a heathen pretension to a divine revelation, we cannot doubt that the symbols, etc.
Author | : Elizabeth Rees |
Publisher | : Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
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Ancient peoples articulated and made sense of their lives through the powerful world of symbol, and Christianity absorbed such symbols as blood, corn, fire and water, adding new dimensions of meaning to each one. By medieval times, these symbols provided access to a many-levelled world in which pagan and Christian truths shed light upon each other. During the Age of Reason, the language of symbol was spoken less, and now that symbols are valued once again, Christians often fear to reconnect religious symbols with their ancient roots. As a result the symbol world of modern Christians is often a pale shadow of the world their forebears inhabited. This book selects dominant Christian symbols and places them against the archaic background from which they grew, drawing on myths and rituals of both ancient and contemporary cultures, thereby integrating the worlds of symbol and reality, sacred and secular, myth and history.
Author | : Thomas Inman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Christian art and symbolism |
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Author | : Thomas Inman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Christian art and symbolism |
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