The Many Faces Of Christ
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The Many Faces Of Jesus Christ
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Author : Küster, Volker
language : en
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 2023-06-01
The Many Faces Of Jesus Christ written by Küster, Volker and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-01 with Religion categories.
"Updated version of an Orbis classic"--
The Many Faces Of Christ
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Author : Philip Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-10-13
The Many Faces Of Christ written by Philip Jenkins and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with Religion categories.
The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus' death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects, each with its own gospel. We are taught that these alternative scriptures, which represented intoxicating, daring, and often bizarre ideas, were suppressed in the fourth and fifth centuries, when the Church canonized the gospels we know today: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The rest were lost, destroyed, or hidden. In The Many Faces of Christ, the renowned religious historian Philip Jenkins thoroughly refutes our most basic assumptions about the Lost Gospels. He reveals that dozens of alternative gospels not only survived the canonization process but in many cases remained influential texts within the official Church. Whole new gospels continued to be written and accepted. For a thousand years, these strange stories about the life and death of Jesus were freely admitted onto church premises, approved for liturgical reading, read by ordinary laypeople for instruction and pleasure, and cited as authoritative by scholars and theologians. The Lost Gospels spread far and wide, crossing geographic and religious borders. The ancient Gospel of Nicodemus penetrated into Southern and Central Asia, while both Muslims and Jews wrote and propagated gospels of their own. In Europe, meanwhile, it was not until the Reformation and Counter-Reformation that the Lost Gospels were effectively driven from churches. But still, many survived, and some continue to shape Christian practice and belief in our own day. Offering a revelatory new perspective on the formation of the biblical canon, the nature of the early Church, and the evolution of Christianity, The Many Faces of Christ restores these Lost Gospels to their central place in Christian history.
The Many Faces Of Christ
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Author : James Stuart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Many Faces Of Christ written by James Stuart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with categories.
The Many Faces Of Jesus
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Author : Richard E. Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Wheatmark Incorporated
Release Date : 2006-06-01
The Many Faces Of Jesus written by Richard E. Wilde and has been published by Wheatmark Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with History categories.
"The Many Faces of Jesus" is an academic book directed at the layman. It is for the person who wants to understand where Christianity is coming from. To understand Christianity is to understand the cultural setting in which the religion was born. It is to understand the origin of the person we call Jesus. Where did Jesus get his sayings, parables, and pronouncements? More than this, it is to know how the religion evolved from its earliest beginnings and how the Church fathers of the second, third, and fourth centuries shaped the content and direction of the religion. Only by reading the Church fathers in their own words can this be done. For those who have had a curiosity about the Church fathers, such as Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, and Augustine, this book presents a chance to be exposed directly to their thoughts. These thoughts have probed the questions that are still asked today. What is the nature of the Trinity? What is the afterlife like? How does the resurrection work, and who will be resurrected? Why is the Church considered to be the body of Christ? How does the Son of God differ from the Son of man? Why did the Church split into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox parts? What was Constantine's role in the development of the Church? Because the focus of the Christian religion is on Jesus Christ, the nature of Jesus is a central theme in the book and indeed forms the title of the book. Jesus has been an enigma, because there exists no direct evidence of his existence. Is it possible to gather enough evidence to piece together a historical Jesus? This requires an understanding of the times in which Jesus lived-the culture of the Greco-Roman world in the last two centuries BCE and the first century CE. It also requires an appreciation of the Jewish history of these times as recorded in I Maccabees of the Apocrypha and in the writings of the Roman historian Josephus. Irrespective of the historical perspective, the Jesus of the Gospels and of the epistles of Paul has an evolving nature that can be explored through the New Testament and through the writings of the early Christians. The early Christians include those who are now considered heretics, especially the Gnostic Christians. It is the aim of this book to accomplish these ends.
The Many Faces Of Christ
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Author : Michele Bacci
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2014-03-15
The Many Faces Of Christ written by Michele Bacci and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Art categories.
Thanks to current portrayals of Jesus of Nazareth, we are apt to think of him as having long hair and a short beard. But, the holy scriptures do not describe Christ’s physiognomy, and his representations are inconsistent in early Christian and medieval arts. How did this long-haired archetype come to be accepted in the late ninth century as the standard iconography of the Son of God? To answer this question, The Many Faces of Christ examines the complex historical and cultural dynamics underlying the making and final establishment of Christ’s image between late antiquity and the early Renaissance. Taking into account a broad spectrum of iconographic and textual sources, Michele Bacci describes the process of creating Christ’s image against the backdrop of ancient and biblical conceptions of beauty and physicality as indicators of moral, ascetic, or messianic qualities. He investigates the increasingly dominant role played by visual experience in Christian religious practice, which promoted belief in the existence of ancient documents depicting Christ’s appearance, and he shows how this resulted in the shaping of portrait-like images that were said to be true to life. With glances at analogous progressions in the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Taoist traditions, this beautifully illustrated book will be of interest to specialists of Late Antique, Byzantine, and medieval studies, as well as anyone interested in the shifting, controversial conceptions of the historical figure of Jesus Christ.
The Many Faces Of Christ
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Author : Michael Mohi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Many Faces Of Christ written by Michael Mohi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art and religion categories.
The Many Faces Of The Divine
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Author : Hermann Ha ring
language : en
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 1995
The Many Faces Of The Divine written by Hermann Ha ring and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Experience (Religion) categories.
The Many Faces Of The Christ
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Author : Ben Witherington (III)
language : en
Publisher: Herder & Herder
Release Date : 1998
The Many Faces Of The Christ written by Ben Witherington (III) and has been published by Herder & Herder this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
In this volume the noted scholar Ben Witherington, III discusses in chronological order the New Testament evidence of what the historical Jesus did, what he said, and what those around him believed. Jesus was a complex figure and, like light shining through a prism, reflections on the man who fits no one formula have produced a variety of colors and depths of shade that cannot and should not be all blended into some monochromatic image.
The Many Faces Of Deception
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Author : Florence Bulle
language : en
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Release Date : 2001
The Many Faces Of Deception written by Florence Bulle and has been published by Bethany House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Provides biblical guidelines for examining controversial movements such as the prosperity gospel, inner healing, and many more.
The Many Faces Of Virtue
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Author : Donald DeMarco
language : en
Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing
Release Date : 2000
The Many Faces Of Virtue written by Donald DeMarco and has been published by Emmaus Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Christian ethics categories.
The Many Faces of Virtue is a personable collection of 48 short essays on the virtues, each no longer than six pages. Dr. DeMarco breathes life to the virtues with both historical and living anecdotes from the lives of such as great heroes as Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, Pope John Paul II, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Emily Dickinson.