In my work as a religious history scholar, I’ve learned that throughout history artists created images of Christ that would speak to different communities. Early image of Christ as a symbol.

But Christ’s own Church has seen its own share of fanaticism. In 726, the Byzantine Emperor Leo III published an edict declaring images — even religious ones — to be idols. Leo decreed that ...

This Friday, the earliest known images of Christ, from the year 240, go on view in New York for the first time, and they aren’t where you might expect them to be. They are part of a remarkable ...

Images Of Jesus Come In All Shapes And Sizes. Christmas is always December 25th but Easter is a moveable feast. Depending on the moon, it can come as early as March 22 and as late as April 25th.

TISSOT does not believe that Jesus Christ is a sun-myth and probably never existed, nor is he of those who concede that there was a historical Christ, but deny that He was more than a reformer to ...

Images of Jesus Christ, and other religious figures seen in everyday objects. 29 December 2011 • 1:00pm In December 2011, Sarah Crane, 38, from Orpington, Kent, spotted see the face of Jesus in ...

The factions that were against images claimed that the image of Jesus Christ was unacceptable, since his nature was both divine and human. An icon of Christ being effaced, from 9th-century Byzantium.

(The Conversation) — In 1915, Norwegian artist Emanuel Vigeland, one of the most respected Scandinavian artists of his time, created an image of Christ with golden hair and fair skin.

This Friday, the earliest known images of Christ, from the year 240, go on view in New York for the first time, and they aren’t where you might expect them to be. They are part of a remarkable ...