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The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition.
This is one of the largest collections of public domain images online (clip art and photos), and the fastest-loading. Maintainer vets all images and promptly answers email inquiries. Open Clip Art – This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
The Transfiguration of Jesus has been an important subject in Christian art, above all in the Eastern church, some of whose most striking icons show the scene. The Feast of the Transfiguration has been celebrated in the Eastern church since at least the 6th century and it is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Eastern Orthodoxy, and so is widely ...
Nature of Obedience. Obedience, from the Latin obêdire, ("to hearken to"), [3] is "the moral virtue that inclines the will to comply with the will of another who has the right to command." [4] Christ is the exemplar of holy obedience "becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross." [5] ". Son though he was, he learned obedience from what ...
Churches of Christ in Christian Union. Illinois District of MEC-South) Congregations. 114 (as of 1995) Members. 6,000 (1995) Official website. christianunion.com. The Christian Union is a Restorationist Christian denomination, with strength in the U.S. state of Ohio and the Midwest.
Evangelical counsels. In Christianity, the three evangelical counsels, or counsels of perfection, are chastity, poverty (or perfect charity ), and obedience. [ 1] As stated by Jesus in the canonical gospels, [ 2] they are counsels for those who desire to become "perfect" ( τελειος, teleios ). [ 3][ 4] The Catholic Church interprets this ...
Christian art is sacred art which uses subjects, themes, and imagery from Christianity. Most Christian groups use or have used art to some extent, including early Christian art and architecture and Christian media . Images of Jesus and narrative scenes from the Life of Christ are the most common subjects, and scenes from the Old Testament play ...
Halo (religious iconography) A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk'; [ 1][ 2] also called a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole ( Latin: gloriola, lit. 'little glory') is a crown of light rays, circle or disk of light [ 3] that surrounds a person in works of art. The halo occurs in the iconography of many ...