I struggled for a couple of weeks to write this review, and thus it is rather long. I do hope, however, that you find both my words and this book helpful.
I struggled for a couple of weeks to write this review, and thus it is rather long. I do hope, however, that you find both my words and this book helpful.
Our self-righteousness is in dire need of a wake-up call, and that is what this book is for. It is an insightful "wake-up call to complacent Christians," convicting us to acknowledge and wrestle with what we actually believe and what we are called to believe and live out.
As discussed in the previous installment of this series, it is both acceptable and good to preserve and appreciate art from around the world. In the following, we will discuss types of depictions of Christ, examine the implications of depicting His face, and get the chance to view examples of that art from around the …
Continue reading The Face of Christ: Part 4 – Christ in Culture and Art
In the previous installments of this series, we addressed the foundation for this discussion, the ethnicity of Jesus, and the Gospel message. As always, there is a necessity to understand history, and that is what we will discuss in the following. The last section began that discussion by speaking a little on Jesus' earthly ethnic history concerning …
Continue reading The Face of Christ: Part 3 – The History of Christian Art
In the first installment of this series, we broached the idea that some people wish to destroy images of Christ for no other reason than they are perceived to be ethnically inaccurate. Such an argument is faulty at best and immoral at worst. People who make such arguments miss the main point of the art …
Continue reading The Face of Christ: Part 2 – Jesus’ Ethnicity and Message