The Crucifixion: The Dream Of The Rood

CThe conflicting elements had caused a significant rupture in the forming of the Christian church. Forinstance,” the doctrine of Docetism. Docetism has long been believed to have been integral to the teachings of the early Christian belief system of several the Gnostic schools however,the doctrine of these schools was to refute that God, in the form of Christ, had taken human form and were allowed to suffer and die on the cross. The doctrine suggested that, human body is composed of matter, and therefore evil. However, the spirit is eternal ,making the body of Christ, that suffered and died on the cross nothing more than mere illusion. Several the apocryphal Gospels contained such docetic ideas and thought; these included The Gospel …show more content…
This sign was initially made by Christians and later extended to protect their whole body and with prayers made, arms extended echoing the Crucifixion. The very shape of the cross was a significant allegory and cosmos meanings, which is as a symbol for salvation. Christ’s suffering and triumph on the Cross were to be separated into two separate aspects in the Middle Ages.” The Dream of the Rood”. Narrator ,successfully managed to intertwined the two ideas into his poem. The Crucifixion was seen during the Mediaeval era as being one of suffering and anguish by Christ death on the cross, nevertheless, his triumph was to come following the Harrowing of Hell, and in his resurrection from the dead on the third day. However, The words of the poet depict a considerably different portrayal from the orthodox image of Christ. Christ is portrayed as a warrior and hero, the actual crucifixion , salvation or redemption as his victory. This imagery of Christ as a chivalrous knight was to largely die out until it returned in the allegorical motifs adopted by the idea of courtly love. For instance,” the knight battling to the death to save the lady he loves and his lady-love representative of his …show more content…
He approaches the tree/cross with bravery and couragousness, strips, and then ascends . This idea is consistent with the motifs of the Crucifixion in the Early Church, it was only in Mediaeval imagery that Christ was depicted as suffering under the cross. The tree in so doing may thus be identified with Christ himself. After all, in the poem The Dream of the Rood it is the tree that is resurrected and becomes the symbol of Christianity when the human Jesus – just as the Germanic warrior – had fought out his battle and suffered death on the Cross. However, the form of a dream vision that allows for the prosopopoeia of a personified tree/cross to become the narrator within the dreamer’s mind and the herald of the principal message of that extraordinary poem of the paradox of faith – of faith in hope through sacrifice which is a synonym for