Nativity
Here are a number of imaginative representations of the Nativity, representing Jesus' birth, from different places and cultures. A few are traditional, others more contemporary. Which ones do you like? Do any stoke your imagination?
Images of Jesus from Around the World
Here are artistic images of Jesus from places around the world. In the gospels, Jesus lives among the people, he meets them where they dwell and work and share life together. He receives their hospitality and becomes the living Word of God among them. The next-to-last image, which hangs in our church's upper lobby, is by American artist Warner Sallman (1940). We are used to "seeing" Jesus this way. The stained-glass image after it is also American, but clearly very different. The window is in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where in 1963 white supremacists bombed the Sunday School of this African American congregation, killing four girls. Imagine the meaning of a crucified Christ of color to this congregation. PScott has seen this one up close. Rembrandt's Head of Christ, which hangs in The Louvre, is included here. There is a Byzantine image of Christ painted on a wall at St. Catherine'...
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