The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

The intervening 7th century was a period of genuine syncretism during which Christian symbolism and doctrine gradually grew in influence.

Syncretism of traditional Germanic animal-style with Christian symbolism is also present in artwork, but Christian symbolism becomes more and more prevalent during the 7th century.

* Christian symbolism

This symbolism may derive from the account of the heavenly vision recorded in the Christian Bible in Revelation 14: 2 reading: " And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps.

* Christian symbolism

Two crossed swords also look like a Christian cross and the mixed symbolism has been used in military decorations, for instance in the Polish Order of the White Eagle ( before 1730 ) and the Cross of Independence.

Gladstone denounced Disraeli's policies of territorial aggrandizement, military pomp, and imperial symbolism ( such as making the Queen Empress of India ), saying it did not fit a modern commercial and Christian nation.

Frequently, however, there was a cross-piece attached either at the top to give the shape of a T ( crux commissa ) or just below the top, as in the form most familiar in Christian symbolism ( crux immissa ).

Trefoil ( from Latin, " three-leaved plant ", French, Italian, German and ) is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings used in architecture and Christian symbolism.

* Explanation of Christian symbolism of Trefoil

Although descriptions ( and life-span ) vary, the Egyptian phoenix ( Bennu bird ) became popular in early Christian art, literature and Christian symbolism, as a symbol of Christ representing his resurrection, immortality, and life-after-death.

The Arch of Constantine, erected in celebration of the victory, certainly attributes Constantine's success to divine intervention ; however, the monument does not display any overtly Christian symbolism.

The relationship between the Tenrikyo organisation and the Protestant denominations are quite good, and much Christian symbolism can be seen in the English version of Tenrikyo's main instructional text, Ofudesaki ( lit.

The film is filled with bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy.

Bands such as Underoath, Blessthefall and Haste the Day incorporate symbolism and Christian messages in a less direct way.

Still, traditions of Jāņi contain no reference to Christianity or any Christian symbolism.

Christianity and Christian symbolism are also important themes, notably in the works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov.

Despite its basis in religious symbolism ( the triptych ) and less-than-subtle imagery ( the crucifixion ), the paintings are difficult to attach specifically to traditional Christian symbolism, and may act on the viewers subliminally.

Many of these minor decorative elements are imbued with Christian symbolism and so further emphasise the themes of the major illustrations.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.

it is necessary to perceive the extent of foreign aid demanded by the Christian imperative.

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.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

To others whose concern it is to penetrate the significance of Christian Humanism, the Renaissance elements are of primary concern.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

Denouncing the view that the sexual union is an end in itself, the Conference declared: `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded as the governing considerations of Christian marriage.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.

What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.

It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.

It is raising no disturbing question as to what Christian stewardship means for the relationship of the richest nation in the world to economically underdeveloped peoples.

It is not disturbing them by thoughts of their Christian responsibility in relation to the world.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

Spiritual life is cultivated, but students do not need to be Christian.

It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.