The changing face of Jesus
The way we depict Christ says more about us than him, scholars sayBy Brian BethelSaturday, April 11, 2009
Yale University professor Jaime Lara recalls standing before a sculpture of Jesus with a mirror where the face should be.
Lara, who teaches courses on Christian art and architecture, including a semester-length examination of Jesus' ever-changing appearance through the centuries, thinks it's as good a portrait as any.
"The face of Christ as depicted in artwork, sculpture, mosaics and frescoes is always going to be in part something that springs from the artist's imagination," he said, bound by cultural conventions and to some degree the racial features of those who crafted the image.
So what did Jesus really look like?
No one knows. the rest image
posted by Pat Dague @ 8:35 AM
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Remember his students didn’t recognize the resurrected Jesus?
What causes then these students to say that they saw Jesus?
I think there is something else we need to pay attention to meet Jesus than mere face.
Don’t you think?
Thank you for helping me to think about this topic.
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