The Synod of Bishops was formed during the Second Vatican Council, introduced by the decree Christus Dominus.

In the 15th-century trompe l ' oeil painting Portrait of a Carthusian ( 1446 ) by Petrus Christus, a fly sits on a fake frame.

Thorvaldsen's Christus was recreated in Lego by parishioners of a Swedish Protestant church in Västerås and unveiled on Easter Sunday 2009.

Image: Christus ( Draft ) by Thorvaldsen. jpg | Draft of Christus, located in the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen.

The name of " Stone " or lapis itself is informed by early Christian allegory, such as Priscillian ( 4th century ), who stated Unicornis est Deus, nobis petra Christus, nobis lapis angularis Jesus, nobis hominum homo Christus.

Chronologically, the second explanation, first clearly enunciated by Irenaeus, is the " ransom " or " Christus Victor " theory.

" Christus victor " and " ransom " are slightly different from each other: in the ransom metaphor Jesus liberates mankind from slavery to Satan and thus death by giving his own life as a ransom.

The " Christus Victor " theory sees Jesus not used as a ransom but rather defeating Satan in a spiritual battle and thus freeing enslaved mankind by defeating the captor.

Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities, but were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Council ( Christus Dominus, 38 ), and implemented by Pope Paul VI's 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae.

* Christus Victor Ministries Open Theism site maintained by Greg Boyd

Another theory, supported only by vague documentary evidence, suggests that in 1456 Antonello visited Milan, where he might have met Van Eyck's most accomplished follower, Petrus Christus.

Image: Christus_carthusian. jpg | Portrait of a Carthusian by Petrus Christus ( 1446 ).

The adjective ( sola ) and the noun ( scriptura ) are in the ablative case rather than the nominative case to indicate that the Bible does not stand alone apart from God, but rather that it is the instrument of God by which he reveals himself for salvation through faith in Christ ( solus Christus or solo Christo ).

Solus Christus is the teaching that Christ is the only mediator between God and man, and that there is salvation through no other ( hence, the phrase is sometimes rendered in the ablative case, solo Christo, meaning that salvation is " by Christ alone ").

Two Latin tragedies are extant ; Archipropheta sive Johannes Baptista, printed at Cologne in 1548, probably performed at Oxford the year before, and Christus redivivus ( Cologne, 1543 ), edited by JM Hart ( for the Modern Language Association of America, 1886, separately issued 1899 ).

Isabel and Saint Elizabeth, by Petrus Christus

" In 1883 Capocci presented a special showcase for his protégé: the first performance in Italy of the oratorio Christus am Ölberge by Beethoven, in which Moreschi sang the demanding coloratura role of the Seraph.

It includes works by Caravaggio, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Petrus Christus, El Greco, Guercino, Alessandro Magnasco, Giuseppe Bazzani, Corrado Giaquinto, Cavaliere d ' Arpino, Gaspare Traversi, Giuliano Bugiardini, Titian, Rembrandt, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Peter Paul Rubens, as well as Impressionists Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh, among others.

Portrait of a Carthusian by Petrus Christus possibly represents Denis the Carthusian

The North Visitors ' Center was built first and features a replica of the Christus, a statue of Jesus Christ by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Episcopal conferences were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Council ( Christus Dominus, 38 ), and implemented by Pope Paul VI's 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae sanctae.

The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.

( vor Christus, before Christ ) and n. Chr.

( nach Christus / Christi Geburt, after Christ / the Nativity of Christ ); the use of this convention was already prescribed in Nazi Germany.

* Artemi, Eirini, « The mystery of the incarnation into dialogues " de incarnatione Unigenitii " and " Quod unus sit Christus " of St. Cyril of Alexandria », Ecclesiastic Faros of Alexandria, ΟΕ ( 2004 ), 145-277.

* Cornel Heinsdorff: Christus, Nikodemus und die Samaritanerin bei Juvencus.

Jahrhundert nach Christus.

Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular.

Adolf von Harnack argued that Chrestians was the original wording, and that Tacitus deliberately used Christus immediately after it to show his own superior knowledge compared to the population at large.

* Petrus Christus ( – 1475 / 1476 ), Early Netherlandish painter.

* R 6. 29 – Christus factus est in A minor

Christus Dominus is the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops.

He wrote a Te Deum, settings of five Psalms ( including Psalm 150 in the 1890s ), about forty motets ( among them three settings of both Christus factus est pro nobis and Ave Maria ), and at least seven Masses.

Jahrhundert nach Christus.

These include his setting of the Easter responsory Christus resurgens ( a4 ) which was not published until 1605, but which as part of the Sarum liturgy could also have been composed during Mary's reign.

But God, on the basis of the life, death, and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ alone ( solus Christus ), grants sinners judicial pardon, or justification, which is received solely through faith.

However, in 1896 an American textbook writer wrote that his statue of the resurrected Christ, commonly referred to as Thorvaldsen's Christus ( created for Vor Frue Kirke ), was " considered the most perfect statue of Christ in the world.

Additional replicas of the Christus include a full size replica at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland within its iconic dome, and a full-sized copy in bronze at the Ben H. Powell III family plot in Oakwood Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas as a memorial to the Powell's son Rawley.

Image: Thorvaldsen Christus. jpg | Christus, Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

Albert of Prussia, Painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, dated 1528

This was started by Roy Noble, who built the guitar played by Clarence White from 1968 to 1972, and was followed by Bill Collings, Marty Lanham, Dana Bourgeois, Randy Lucas, Lynn Dudenbostel and Wayne Henderson, a few of the luthiers building guitars today inspired by vintage Martins, the pre – World War II models in particular.

Dürer's work on the book was halted for an unknown reason, and the decoration was continued by artists including Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Baldung.

In that period his works are influenced by artists such as Giorgione and Lucas Cranach, as shown by his Crucifixion.

The “ north-bank ” thesis of F. L. Lucas, based on his 1921 solo field-trip to Thessaly, is now, however, broadly accepted by historians.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

Dots and Boxes ( also known as Boxes, Squares, Paddocks, Square-it, Dots and Dashes, Dots, Smart Dots, Dot Boxing, or, simply, the Dot Game ) is a pencil and paper game for two players ( or sometimes, more than two ) first published in 1889 by Édouard Lucas.

At one stage he was considered by George Lucas as a possible director for Return of the Jedi but was passed.

Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder of the pope using the temporal power to grant authority to a ruler contributing generously to the Catholic Church

It includes Friedman's permanent income hypothesis view on consumption, the " rational expectations revolution " spearheaded by Robert Lucas, and real business cycle theory.

Shepard was recommended to Milne by another Punch staffer, E. V. Lucas in 1923.

The next year, along with producer George Lucas, he was able to indulge himself by making Captain EO ( 1985 ), a 12-minute space fantasy for Disney theme parks starring pop superstar Michael Jackson.

by Cedric Lucas.

Lucas currently serves as executive producer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated television series on Cartoon Network, which was preceded by a feature film of the same name.

Lucas has pledged to give half of his fortune to charity as part of an effort called The Giving Pledge led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade America's richest individuals to donate their financial wealth to charities.

On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named among the 100 " Greatest Americans " by the Discovery Channel.