The point of Jesus' remark is that no matter how ... Scenes from the Catacombs: Early Christian Popular Art The extensive and almost continuous exploration of early Christian catacombs has ...

Indeed, the burgeoning Christian art, when it can be seen as distinctively ... one of the great competitors, by the way, of Jesus, as early Christianity began, because he was a beloved God.) ...

such as Jacobus da Voragine's Golden Legend (1298), directly influenced the depiction of Christmas in the centres which shaped the representation of Christmas in the art of early Christianity. When ...

He was a creation of later church fathers trying to purge the cultic mysticism of the early Jesus movement, whose mythic origins ... He cites depictions in Christian art, along with intriguing yet ...

We might think that the artists of the Annunciation Triptych are offering us an extremely literal illustration. It’s as if ...

The octagon became an important symbol in early Christianity as a representation of Jesus’s eighth day, i.e. his resurrection. The shape was commonly used for early baptisteries and shrines for ...

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

The nativity story, as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, recounts the birth of Jesus ... the early Christian age, ...

A profile of Logos Theatre, a South Carolina troupe that is mounting plays at the Museum of the Bible -- and growing, with ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

They raised the two children in a conservative Christian cocoon: church every Sunday, mid-week Bible study, Christian private ...

I still remember being in 6th grade and my teacher reading to us the story of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara ...