Cultural depictions of Jesus

salvation that we have received from Jesus Christ. If we ever stop and think about being so ungrateful for the great gift of salvation that Jesus made available to us we can review a biblical account that will make us stop and think that we aren’t the only ones who have failed to thank Jesus for some wonderful gift he gave them. Jesus gave ten men that He encountered while walking along a country road a gift whose immense value to them would have been worth more than a mountain of gold. None of us could even imagine the terrible life that these ten men were forced to exist in daily. When an illness strikes one of…

The initial incident in the play starts when Antony lives in Egypt with his love Cleopatra. Anthony lives a luxurious life in Egypt. He eats massive feast, drink wine all night long, and evens dance to the music being played until morning, where he sleeps so he can those events the following night. Although Antony enjoys his time in Egypt, problems in the Roman Empire like rebellions and civil war draw him back to Rome. Not only that, his friend Ceaser is mad at Antony for breaking his sworn…

The music video of LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” is rich with cultural artefacts and statements. Despite their partying and free-of-care spirit, the landscape, depiction of gender, ethnicity and briefly religion could only be seen to be deliberate and well planned out. The music video is an intertextual reference to the genre of post-apocalyptic movies and dramas. The video plays with the concept of people being effected by a massive plague, which takes away your human nature upon infection.…

The book Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teaching of Jesus by Marcus J. Borg is a great book to read to give you an understanding of the life of the historical Jesus. It is very accessible and is free from a lot of theological terminology which you would usually find in a book about Jesus Christ, however this book is about Jesus, and not Christ. This is because he writes in a historical factual manner dealing with solid issues and not the usual theological theories. By reading this book…

Anne Rice’s Christ the Lord Out of Egypt: A Novel chronicles the life of seven year old Jesus. Set within the context of ancient Near Eastern culture, Rice begins her novel by depicting a scene between him and another young boy, Eleazer. After accidently claiming the boy’s life, Jesus uses his “power” to bring Eleazer back from the dead. After the turmoil settles, Joseph, Jesus’ father, leads his family out of Alexandria to embark on a journey to Jerusalem. Upon arrival in the Holy City,…

Duccio’s life, influences, and experiences all affected his artistic style and the way he designed the Maesta. Duccio was born in Siena, Italy. The topic of artwork discussed did not come until later in his life. Throughout most of his life his skills were used in a variety of different venues from political leaders and parties to cultural celebrations. Duccio was also known to have trained italian painter Guido da Siena( known for painting a lot of religious pieces). Duccio was influenced…

These two works of art were created in the same medium of oil done by Spanish artists. The iconography is very much similar in that the portrait depicts Jesus on the cross when he was crucified. Both works of art portrays Christ with his arms spread open, nailed to a wooden cross. The element of chiaroscuro, creation of light and dark is very prevalent in both works. The space around the cross is dark and the light is shown on Jesus’ body. There are many reasons as to why there was darkness at…

partial and nuanced", "pragmatic", "provisional", "for the time being", "experimental". Doing less than this is to settle for less than the church's true identity, Jesus Christ, whose capacious identity opens up onto the whole of reality; doing more than this is to misconstrue Christian knowledge of that person—either by turning him into a principle or a schema, ignoring his unsubstitutability, or by short-circuiting his profound eschatological mysteriousness, and settling for a debased form of…

Art Essay The San Antonio Museum of Art displays a piece called, “Tree of Life” made in 1805. “Tree of Life is a painting made by Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente a Mexican nun; de la Fuente is from Morelia, Mochoacan, Mexico. “The painting is rooted in European morality art of the 16th century” (San Antonio Museum of Art Plaque). The this painting uses realism to help in the depiction of what the painting is showing- a man surrounded by the devil, an angel, a skeleton, Mary, and Jesus ringing a…

exposure increases when walking into a classroom or store. Recently, the representation of these countless figures has come into question. Is the depiction accurate? Furthermore, does it need to be accurate? How does that depiction change behavior? In particular, representation of one subject has come under fire in recent years: the female body. In a time before written language—much less cameras make up, or other methods of altering one’s body—the human figure was shaped by evolutionary needs.…