I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

Angel-shaped beings appear in ancient Mesopotamian and Greek art and were probably the inspiration for the popular Christian image of angels, a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture.

From then on, though of course with some exceptions, Christian art represented angels with wings, as in the cycle of mosaics in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( 432-440 ).

* Archangel Michael in Christian art

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According to Athanasius, the devil fought St. Anthony by afflicting him with boredom, laziness, and the phantoms of women, which he overcame by the power of prayer, providing a theme for Christian art.

In Christian iconography, some works of art depict women with their breasts in their hands or on a platter, signifying that they died as a martyr by having their breasts severed ; one example of this is Saint Agatha of Sicily.

The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.

Resurrection of Christ by Noel Coypel, 1700, using a Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art | hovering depiction of Jesus.

Cultural Christian is a broad term used to describe people with either ethnic or religious Christian heritage who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music, and so on related to it.

Until the Age of Enlightenment, Christian culture was the predominant force in western civilization, guiding the course of philosophy, art, and science.

* Christian art

: " With its love of luxury and passion for colour, the art of this age delighted in the production of masterpieces that spread the fame of Byzantium throughout the whole of the Christian world.

These attitudes were reinforced in Christian preaching, art and popular teaching over the centuries containing contempt for Jews.

The new school currently has campuses in Ireland, Cairo, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, where Coptic priests-to-be and other qualified men and women are taught among other subjects Christian theology, history, the Coptic language and art – including chanting, music, iconography, and tapestry.

* Early Christian art and architecture

The temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperor Theodosius I silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and works of art in the name of Christianity.

He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Christian Schuessele.

The institution of the Eucharist has been a key theme in the depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art, as in this 19th-century Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | Bouveret painting.

* Ecclesia and Synagoga, meaning " Church and Synagogue ", are a pair of figures personifying the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish synagogue found in medieval Christian art.

These combined elements have led to the cross as being described as " syncretic art "; a mixture of pagan and Christian beliefs.

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is held to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops.

The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to Xerxes, both deriving from the Persian Khshayārsha, thus Ahasuerus is usually identified as Xerxes I ( 486-465 BCE ), though Ahasuerus is identified as Artaxerxes in the later Greek version of Esther ( as well as by Josephus, the Jewish commentary Esther Rabbah, the Ethiopic translation and the Christian theologian Bar-Hebraeus who identified him more precisely as Artaxerxes II ).

The death and resurrection of Jesus are usually considered the most important events in Christian Theology, partly because they demonstrate that Jesus has power over life and death and therefore has the authority and power to give people eternal life.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

* Cell ( archaeology ) The term may be applied to a monks church in Ireland, usually early Christian Place names in Ireland

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

In South America there are a number of indigenous traditions and more recent religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca, usually in an animistic context that may be mixed with Christian imagery.

This is usually taken to be a comment on the way that Victorian England proclaimed the Christian values of forgiveness, charity and poverty on a Sunday, only to ignore them for the rest of the week and the practical running of its life.

The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, usually referred to simply as First Thessalonians and often written 1 Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

Some Christian theologians, some fundamentalists, and others pejoratively refer to any philosophy which they see as literal-minded or they believe carries a pretense of being the sole source of objective truth as fundamentalist, regardless of whether it is usually called a religion.

However, the Great Commission is specifically directed at " all nations ," and an early difficulty arose concerning the matter of Gentile ( non-Jewish ) converts as to whether they had to " become Jewish " ( usually referring to circumcision and adherence to dietary law ), as part of becoming Christian.

:< BLOCKQUOTE > Outside Islamdom, Christian missionaries from Europe usually succeeded in making converts.

Since the end of World War II, the Christian Social People's Party ( CSV ) has usually been the dominant partner in governing coalitions.

* William M. Branham, Christian minister, usually credited with founding the post-World War II faith healing movement

Both terms translate to " rule, sovereignty, government ", usually of monarchs ( kings or emperors ), but also of gods, and of the Christian God.

Some evangelicals are doubtful if the Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy are still valid manifestations of the Church and usually reject religious ( typically restorationist ) movements rooted in 19th century American Christianity, such as Mormonism ; also Christian Science, or Jehovah's Witnesses as not distinctly Christian.

In East Timor, one of the two predominately Christian nations in southeast Asia ( the Philippines being the other ), for some, the roof of the house is reserved for gods and spirits of ancestors, the lower portion remains for the nature spirit and usually occupied by animals, and the cock is admired because of courage and perseverance, with the courage of a man compared with that of the cock, with the cockfight occurring regularly and “ many tais designs include the cock ”.

Early Christian writings occasionally use the word to refer to the human will, and even the will of God's opponent, the Devil, but it usually refers to the will of God.

" Various English translations use different vocabulary sometimes with different meanings ; usually this causes no important difference to the story: one speech / vocabulary / same words, plain / valley, asphalt / bitumen / slime, children / men, confound / confuse ; and sometimes the difference is important to later interpretations of the meaning of the story: may reach unto heaven / in the sky / will be in the skies ( examples from King James, Holman Christian, and R E Friedman versions ).

The term may refer to any belief about the nature of Jesus Christ that affirms God as a singular entity and rejects the doctrine of the Trinity and is usually distinguished from Arianism, which was rejected by mainstream Christianity, a consensus of Christian bishops at the First Council of Nicaea in 325.