christian symbolism history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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The Beginnings of Christian Art

Book by D. Talbot Rice; Abingdon Press, 1957

Subjects:

Christian Art And Symbolism--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...piece of ancient symbolism and was used by Christian artists for many...through most of its history in close touch with...at issue are all Christian in subject matter...and other pieces of Christian symbolism akin to those in...
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Church Symbolism: An Explanation of the More Important Symbols of the Old and New Testament, the Primitive, the Mediaeval and the Modern Church

Book by F. R. Webber; J. H. Jansen, 1938

Subjects:

Christian Art And Symbolism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...interest not only in symbolism, but in Mediaeval...scattered ashes into Historys golden urn...letters. In early Christian symbolism these five letters...stages in the life history of the butterfly...three stages of the Christian. First is the crawling...
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Symbolism in Liturgical Art

Book by Leroy H. Appleton, Stephen Bridges; Charles Scribners Sons, 1959

Subjects:

Christian Art And Symbolism--Dictionaries

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...used throughout history to signify learning...In the earliest Christian art only the roll...expression of the Christian soul enjoying...and recalls the history of Noah in the...Stafford in Christian Symbolism in the Evangelical...
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The Early Christians

Book by Michael Gough; Frederick A. Praeger, 1961

Subjects:

Christian Art And Symbolism--History, Christianity--Early Church, Church Architecture--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...further feature of Christian history is its continuity...episode of Church history. According to...incensed against the Christians when, in 297...of a new era in history, and in the circumstances...have appeared to Christians as due to a direct...
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Each with His Own Brush: Contemporary Christian Art in Asia and Africa

Book by Daniel Johnson Fleming; Friendship Press, 1938

Subjects:

Art--Africa, Christian Art And Symbolism, Painting--China, Painting--India, Painting--Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...events in their own early Christian history. The beginnings of Christianity...He became interested in the history of Christian martyrs in Japan. While...page is filled with native Christian symbolism. At the bottom are words...

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Survival of Early Christian Symbolism in Monastic Churches of New Spain and Visions of the Millennial Kingdom

Journal article by Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000

Subjects:

Architectural design--Religious aspects, Christian art and symbolism--United States, Christian art--United States, Christian symbolism--United States, Church buildings--Design and construction, Churches--Design and construction, Dominicans, Franciscans, Indigenous peoples--Religious aspects, Monasteries--Design and construction, Monasticism and religious orders--United States, Religious orders (Christian)--United States, United States--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...blessed. This piece of symbolism was clear to all adult...important event in the Christian calendar). However...1984, ch. 12, for a history of these orders). Furthermore...great epochs of human history (Phelan 1970: 14-15...committed to writing, Christians have been alert to signs...
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The Transcendental Symbolic Christ Figure in Gabriel Scott's Kilden

Journal article by Frederick Hale; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 78, 2006

Subjects:

Christian art and symbolism--Criticism and interpretation, Christian symbolism--Criticism and interpretation, Jesus Christ--Portrayals, Kilden (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Scott, Gabriel--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Scott employed Christian symbolism to convey his natural...most notably liberal Christian theology with its emphasis...reduced to a victim of history, largely without hope...Religious liberals in the Christian tradition have often...literary and ideational history. WORKS CITED Dahl, Truls...
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Divine Images of Hysteria in Emile Zola's Lourdes

Journal article by Kathleen Ann Comfort; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 2002

Subjects:

Authors, French--Criticism and interpretation, Christian art and symbolism--Portrayals, Christian art--Portrayals, Christian symbolism--Portrayals, Devotion--Portrayals, French literature--Criticism and interpretation, French writers--Criticism and interpretation, Hysteria (Personality disorders)--Portrayals, Hysteria--Portrayals, Lourdes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Mysticism--Portrayals, Sexual abstinence--Portrayals, Zola, Emile--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...symptom of hysteria and a characteristic of Christian rapture, reminds the reader of the young...more a stereotypical hysterical case history...those with little background in Catholic symbolism, another, more subtle emblem of the Virgin...
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'Heaven and Earth in Little Space': The Foetal Existence of Christ in Medieval Literature and Thought

Journal article by Jacqueline Tasioulas; Medium Aevum, Vol. 76, 2007

Subjects:

Christian art and symbolism, Christian literature, Early--Criticism and interpretation, Christian literature, Early--Works, Christian symbolism, Early Christian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Early Christian literature--Works, Humanism, Religious--Works, Incarnation--Portrayals, Jesus Christ--Portrayals, Literature, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Medieval--Works, Medieval literature--Criticism and interpretation, Medieval literature--Works, Religious humanism--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Gertrud Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art, trans. Janet Seligman...1980, pp. 144-7. (13) For a history of attitudes towards and practices...placenta, see Jacques Gelis, History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy...20-2. For an overview of the history of vernacular writings on embryology...
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Pictorial Images of Spanish North America

Journal article by Bernard L. Fontana; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000

Subjects:

Artists, Spanish--Criticism and interpretation, Christian art and symbolism--New Mexico, Christian art--New Mexico, Christian symbolism--New Mexico, Conquerors--Portrayals, Native Americans--Portrayals, Native North Americans--Portrayals, North America--Portrayals, Spanish Americans--Portrayals, Spanish artists--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...The Segesser Hide Paintings: history, discovery, art. Great Plains...Anthropology 20, 1: 2-12. Feest, Christian F. 1988 Jacques le Moyne Minus...in Ethnological and Natural History Imagery of the 16th Century...Sources and Studies for the History of the Americas, Vol. 9. Translated...

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The Return of the Fathers

Magazine article by R.R. Reno; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2006

Subjects:

Christian art and symbolism--Usage, Christian literature--Forecasts and trends, Christian literature--Study and teaching, Christian symbolism--Usage, Christianity--Forecasts and trends, Christianity--Study and teaching, Church fathers--Portrayals, Fathers of the church--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...narrower, more precise symbolism that sheds some light...great figures of the Christian past. Who would have...political science. The history department employs no...system of Origen or the Christian Platonism of the Cappadocians...read the Bible, and the history of interpretation is...
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The Beauty of Truth

Magazine article by Linda Bridges; National Review, Vol. 49, May 19, 1997

Subjects:

Christian art and symbolism--Criticism and interpretation, Christian art--Criticism and interpretation, Christian symbolism--Criticism and interpretation, Icons--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...sort of thing poses a problem for many Christians. Our own rector, Fr. Edgar Wells, took...the Iconoclastic Controversy, as the history books understatedly call it. During this...difference between Western and Eastern Christian art. Most Western depictions of Our Lady...
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The Sacred Art of Tibet

Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 253, December 16, 1991

Subjects:

Art, Tibetan--Exhibitions, Christian art and symbolism--Exhibitions, Christian art--Exhibitions, Christian symbolism--Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...in certain theories of the history of the theater). There are...death scenes paradigmatic to Christianity!). The Buddha is lying on...those nothelfige Heiligen of Christianity that desperate Christians call upon in their straits...
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Christ and the Art of Agony

Magazine article by Nigel Spivey; History Today, Vol. 49, August 1999

Subjects:

Christian art and symbolism--History, Christianity--History, Martyrdom--History, Rome (Ancient)--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...There was a millennium-long history of this motif of animal-carrying...Hermes the Ram-bearer: but in a Christian context its significance is...the altar for sacrifice. For Christians, by contrast, it was the pastoral...subterranean burial-places, Christians celebrated Jesus Christ not...
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Don't Trivialize the Ten Commandments, Christian Magazine Says

Magazine article; Church & State, Vol. 53, April 2000

Subjects:

Christian art and symbolism--Social aspects, Religious literature--Laws, regulations, etc., Ten Commandments (Sacred text)--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...the danger of becoming an idol. Too often in the history of Christianity one element of the faith has been lifted out of...even imprison or kill) others, including other Christians. No one is talking about using the Ten Commandments...

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Angara Promises More Laws Empowering Muslim Community

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 24, 2007

Subjects:

Christian-Muslim relations--Laws, regulations and rules, Christianity and other religions--Islam, Christianity and other religions--Laws, regulations and rules, Islam--Laws, regulations and rules, Muslims--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...are important part of the countrys rich history and culture. It is essential that we, both Christians and Muslims, start building bridges with...south and I cannot think of any greater symbolism than this. It is a most opportune gesture...
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God-Haters Who Wantto Expunge Britain's Past, Well Meaning Ninnies and (Hallelujah!) a Campaign to Resurrect Christmas; Saturday Essay

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 2, 2006

Subjects:

Jesus Christ

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...which exclude Christian symbolism at this time of year...and with it not merely Christianity itself, as practised...rest of our Christian history. While trying to be...who, if they find our Christian history so objectionable, clearly...
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Boughing to Tradition: Trees Bedecking Local Museums Reflect Myriad Holiday Customs

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, December 18, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for African American History and Culture in the Smithsonian...of their use in pre-Christian times. Historians...ready-made for Christian symbolism. They were always green...The six at American History center on stories created...that look back to pre-Christian harvest festivals...
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Chavez's Holy War

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 17, 2007

Subjects:

Catholic Church, Chavez, Hugo

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the greatest socialist in history." "The Kingdom of Christ...Mr. Chavez is so anxious to "Christianize" his political program, even...Chavez drapes it in Christian symbolism. Many Christians have been martyred for far...
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'Christmas Ban Causes Anti-Muslim Sentiment'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 2, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...UK urging them not to drop Christian symbolism from this years festivities. It follows...Muslim community. Were very glad our Christian brothers and sisters are celebrating...events starting at St Fagans: National History Museum on Wednesday. One that will almost...

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Lillos London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell (1731...as a bridge to 20th-century symbolism. His realistic dramas of ideas...century realism, naturalism, and symbolism (and various combinations of...ed. 1954); M. Bieber, The History of Greek and Roman Theatre...
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Cross

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...outstanding development (from the 11th cent.) in the history of Christian piety; it has ever since been an essential part of...using the cross and do not use the crucifix, but the symbolism has been retained in their literature (e.g., in the...
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Russian Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...their prose and poetry. Bibliography See D. S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature (rev. ed. 1949); E. J. Simmons, ed...Carlisle, ed., Poets on Street Corners (1969); N. K. Gudzii, History of Early Russian Literature (1949, repr. 1970); G. Struve...
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Browne, Sir Thomas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Cyrus, a work devoted to the mystic symbolism of the number five. Brownes philosophy...one of the outstanding figures in the history of English literature. His other notable...commonly known as Vulgar Errors, and Christian Morals (1716). See edition of his...
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Tillich, Paul Johannes

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...divine answers drawn from the symbolism of Christian revelation. The great questions...include The Interpretation of History (tr. 1936), The Protestant...J. C. Brauer (1970), and A History of Christian Thought, ed. by C. E. Braaten...

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