Christ

Followers of Christ need to expect to live out of their comfort, world life and, set fourth the works of the Father. People tend to wear the label of Christianity, proclaiming their faith yet, staying put in the world, tending to only themselves. The books in the Bible of James and Colossians each describe the trials, faults, and temptations Christians would face in order to live by His name. Also the books say that the Lord 's unconditional love is needed to be returned to others through love…

Of all the events in human history, there is no event more significant, more important than that of the incarnation of Christ. When the living, eternal God, a Spirit Being, entered into humanity by becoming a human Himself. Of this instance of God entering into humanity, Chafer writes, “No human mind can grasp the significance of the occurrence and consequence of the incarnation. That a person of the Godhead should become one of the human family-the sphere of His own creation-with a view to…

views on Christology purpose of the sacrament, meaning of key Scriptural terms and the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Since many of the reformations conceptions of the Eucharist were formed in…

Perugino’s Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter and Gentile Bellini’s Procession of the Relic of the True Cross before the Church of St. Mark were painted fifteen years apart and in different parts of Italy (Venice and Rome), but both paintings use similar technique to convey depth in efforts to replicate and service the human gaze on a two dimensional surface. Both paintings demonstrate use of linear perspective to achieve this. There is a horizon line with a vanishing point in both pieces,…

Life Application While reading this passage I was reminded of many things I have either chosen to ignore or have forgotten I even remembered. Those things being either the previous passing of friends or family members, and just a few of the promises Christ has for us. In verse 13 Paul begins by informing the people and by giving them hope. This parallels my life in some instances. The first time I experienced the death of a loved one and had the ability to really understand it, I was about…

act like himself in real life. When Pyotr moved to the island he left the majority of all his fame and fortune behind and left and converted his life and became closer to the church as well as God. This resembles the “foolishness for Christ”. Foolishness for Christ refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining a monastic order, or to deliberate flouting of society's conventions to serve a religious purpose – particularly of Christianity. Such individuals…

presents the Virgin Mary holding the deceased body of Christ in her arms after he was put down from the cross, then later was placed inside the tomb. The most common form being sculptured at that time was the Pietas. Michelangelo’s version of Pietas is a lot less…

The Vesperbild and the Pieta are funeral monument pieces conveying the emotions of pity, passion, and pain. Christ and the Virgin Mary effectively capture and translate those emotions from the artists’ imagination. Each sculpture successfully depicts the death of Christ, which Mary holds upon her lap in vein with high details as well. Most importantly, both sculptors found it fit to extend a particular style which they made their own when sculpting. Beyond the Vesperbild and the Pieta both…

Gibson used more than just use the basic story of Christ’s death in the film. For example the crucification details were taken from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This book is based on the visions a German nun called Anne Catherine Emmerich. She believed that her visions had much more than the Gospel version of the story of Christ's suffering. For exmaple, in the part where the Gospels only tell that Jesus was being whipped, she added much more detail that grabbed Gibson’s…

Church is sometimes referred to as the Bride of Christ in the Bible because in a sense, Jesus could be referred to as the Bridegroom of the Church. Of course, Jesus is not actually married to the Church, but saying so is just a form of symbolism. Jesus’ love for the Church can somewhat be compared to a husband’s love for his wife. As it is said in Ephesians 5:24-27, a wife must be subordinate to her husband like how the Church is subordinate to Jesus Christ. This makes sense because the Church…