Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Quest for the True Cross PDF full book. Access full book title The Quest for the True Cross by Carsten Peter Thiede. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Carsten Peter Thiede Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan ISBN: 9781403962126 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
The cross is arguably the most recognizable symbol in Western civilization. But what are its historical origins, and what happened to it after Christ`s crucifixion? In a church outside Rome, a fragment of wood may hold the answer to these questions and could be fundamental to our understanding of Christianity. Focusing on a long-ignored fragment of the Titulus Crucis-the inscribed headboard from Christ`s cross-authors Thiede and d`Ancona provide evidence that it may date from the time of Christ and was brought to Rome by Queen Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, in AD 328. Their claim is a radical challenge to the modern view that all reputed holy relics are fakes. Following in Helena`s footsteps and drawing together the threads of history, archaeology, myth, religion, and science, this journey through the ancient world is sure to transform many readers` conceptions about early Christian faith.
Author: Carsten Peter Thiede Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan ISBN: 9781403962126 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
The cross is arguably the most recognizable symbol in Western civilization. But what are its historical origins, and what happened to it after Christ`s crucifixion? In a church outside Rome, a fragment of wood may hold the answer to these questions and could be fundamental to our understanding of Christianity. Focusing on a long-ignored fragment of the Titulus Crucis-the inscribed headboard from Christ`s cross-authors Thiede and d`Ancona provide evidence that it may date from the time of Christ and was brought to Rome by Queen Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, in AD 328. Their claim is a radical challenge to the modern view that all reputed holy relics are fakes. Following in Helena`s footsteps and drawing together the threads of history, archaeology, myth, religion, and science, this journey through the ancient world is sure to transform many readers` conceptions about early Christian faith.
Author: Robin M. Jensen Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674088808 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ’s sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol’s transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix—the cross with the figure of Christ—and whether it should emphasize Jesus’s suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus’s body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen’s wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.
Author: Cornelia Mary Bilinsky Publisher: ISBN: 9780819874610 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 40
Book Description
Sweet-smelling basil marks the spot in this treasure hunt led by a queenly saint--join her as she treks to Jerusalem in search of the Holy Cross of Jesus Christ In this fabulous and instructive blend of tale and history, boys and girls alike will be captivated by Helen, an adventurous empress on a mission. Offering faith-based reading in an entertaining format of dialogue and narration, children are encouraged to treasure the Holy Cross in their "own" lives.
Author: Barbara Baert Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047405749 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 596
Book Description
This fascinating study reconstructs the tradition of the Legend of the True Cross in text and image, from its tentative beginnings in 4th-century Jerusalem to the culminating expression of its multi-layered cosmic content in 14th and 15th-century monumental cycles in Germany and Italy.
Author: Carsten Peter Thiede Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9780826480675 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
For centuries, scholars have tried to work out where Emmaus was: where, in other words, the risen Christ walked, ate and revealed himself. It is a crucial location in the map of Christian belief and one of the great missing links of Christian archaeology. This book produces a dramatic find about the lost site of Emmaus, rising again from the soil.
Author: Louis De Wohl Publisher: ISBN: Category : Christian women saints Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
The author reconstructs the atmosphere of fourth-century Rome in this story of intrigue, romance, and power politics revolving around Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Christian emperor.
Author: Carsten Peter Thiede
Author: Carsten Peter Thiede
Author: Robin M. Jensen![The true Cross [a poem]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/8FACAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: George John Whyte- Melville![The true cross, tr. [by C.S.]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/eVNm7Vh6qcAC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: César Henri A. Malan
Author: Cornelia Mary Bilinsky
Author: Barbara Baert![The True Cross: a Narrative ... Translated [by C. S.] from the French PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/fAKXmDbCw_4C?fife=w80-h100)
Author: César Henri Abraham MALAN
Author: 
Author: Carsten Peter Thiede
Author: Louis De Wohl