Saints By Cynthia Hahn Summary

The foundation of the Christian faith is cradled within truth of the virgin birth, life, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As diverse as the world-wide Christian culture is, the truth in the birth and life of Jesus stands without border and language limitations. Just as each individual life story can be adapted to be relevant for a variety of audiences, the birth story of the Messiah was also. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke are an example of the well-rounded and diverse narration of the birth story of Jesus—Matthew’s narration spoke to the history of the Jewish people and Luke presented to the citizen of Rome.

I have read various books on Theological Hermeneutics, and one, whose title has slipped my mind, had once suggested the Hermeneutics isn’t only about picking up the Bible, analyzing it, and putting it back down, but also making an application through it. So, in this paper I have followed such a suggestion. First I will mention the background of the book being hermeneutically analyzed. This answers many of the questions needed to contextualize the book into its original socio-cultural setting for better understanding. Secondly, I will do an exegesis, or commentary, on the verses of the book to explain the interpretation that I had gotten out of it. This is done in

It is possible to write on the life of Jesus from the information gathered from the bible. I will be dividing my essay into three parts. In the first part of the paper, I will talk about the nature of the gospels, John’s views vs. the Synoptic, discuss if the authors of the gospels are eyewitnesses and how they used written sources. Also I will talk about the Q source. Then I will elaborate on the topic of how Matthew and Luke were similar. Then I will continue on by discussing how the Old Testament uses Moses, Samuel and Elijah to interpret Jesus, and finally whether or not the Sermon on the Mount happened. In the second part of my paper, I will talk about Jesus’s birth and childhood, his miracles, his resurrection, and what Jesus did to cure people, spirits and how they are interpreted to the prophet, magician and the mad man compared to Saul and Elijah. The final part of the paper I will talk about what Jesus talked about as regards to the Kingdom of God vs. the Kingdom of the Romans and what he intended by speaking of the end of the world. I will also speak of the reasons behind the Romans executing him. My sources for this paper will be the New Jerusalem Bible Readers edition as my primary source and lecture notes from Professor Trumbach.

In the lives of saints, we find biographical material that helps to shed light on the way of life throughout the past two-thousand years. The lives of saints show a pattern of spirituality that teaches each successive generation how to follow Christ, according to each individual culture. Saints are the archetypes of the Christian experience and the Christian life. They are role models, and they are our intercession with God in Heaven. It is important for us, as Christians, to never lose our sense of discipleship, which the saints help with, as they are our older brothers and sisters in Christ and can help us learn from the past.1 The depiction of saints is very important to art, and its impact is not small.

Both essays focus on children's ability to blend visual drawings and writing and how they interact with one another. In some classrooms young children are being urged to see drawing and writing separately rather than as a unified system of meaning making. Thomas Newkirk makes us think about how pictures relate to language in written texts, and Alexie Sherman explains how he had the help from comic books (graphic novels) and watching his dad's passion for reading help (sponsor) him want to learn how to read. They both believe that visual images communicate meaning. Its not just about the design and creativity but also about how culture and meaning are reflected, communicated and altered by images. This is visual literacy, it involves all the

In the reading by Patricia Collins, there were many keywords that easily identified the main argument. However, of those keywords, two that really stood out were binary thinking and subordination. First. binary thinking creates the notion that all circumstances are cut and dry or that there is no in-between. Things are what they appear to be. Secondly, subordination deals with creating a certain organization to a circumstance or condition. Specifically, it is placing someone in a lower rank or class.

The Passion of St. Perpetua and Felicitas, as translated by H.R. Musurillo is the narrative of St. Perpetua’s martyrdom. During the period of time in which St. Perpetua was victimized in order to oppress her faith, medieval vita’s were of great use to coax people to follow Christianity. This first hand account of her own persecution follows Perpetua’s story from the time of her arrest, right up to her death. St. Perpetua herself used biblical symbols, and paradoxical phrases to set the tone of her account, to illustrate the righteousness of her martyrdom to her fellow Christians, and to prove that all of “God’s people will be preserved”, and therefore deserves more exploration.

The children’s book Voices In The Park is written and illustrated by Anthony Browne (1998). It is a first person point of view narrative that gives the reader four different perspectives of the same event. This postmodern children’s picturebook transcends the typical children’s book. Browne’s ability to project emotion, attitudes, and status via line, shape, space, texture, colour, composition and perspective is magnificent. Granted, Browne’s Voices In The Park is not a Caldecott Medal winner, it is however, a renowned example of the literary elements children’s picturebooks should embody.

A third theme is about importance of afterlife in the medieval time. God was everywhere with his grace man be born, he lives for him, trying at all costs to win his favor asceticism and fulfilling orders of the Decalogue, with his finally die to get eternal reward for a life of renunciation. The man was subordinated to God, worshiping him and acknowledge the superiority of the spiritual over the temporal goods. At that time, the relationship between God and man was simple and unambiguous. God was perfection, which sought in his earthly journey man tried to so live and die like best, so as to get closer to God and eternal life. The man knew the purpose of his life and tried to fill it as best he could. The unchanging teaching of the Church is

The Parisian intellectual such as Hugh of St. Victor, Peter the Chanter and the circle of clerics under their influence prove to be remarkably receptive towards the performative forms of sanctity in the southern Low Countries. Jacques de Vitry, a committed disciple and great admirer of Peter the Chanter, found his spiritual inspiration in the person of Mary of Oignies and first installed the hagiographical tradition about the Liégois “living saints”. Jacques de Vitry decided that a devout lay woman who had been alive in recent memories and with whom he had intimate personal friendship was a worthy subject for a hagiographical work. The past scholarship on this surprising decision tends to emphasize the immediate context of the supposed dualist heretics in Southern France who held a contemptuous attitude towards the human carnality and the sacramental rituals.

The subject of the paper is an analysis of the hagiography of a blacksmith George, who came from a region famous for hermit deserts and monasteries and died a martyr’s death in the town of Sofia. His Life is written by using the inherited forms of Byzantine as well as Serbian martyr hagiographies. Following the early tradition, the central theme of the Life is an account of interrogation and torture which represent conflicting religious values and identities. At the same time, the new saint is placed in a line with prince Lazar, with whom he forms a circle of late medieval Serbian martyrs while despots of Branković family are recognized as ruler-saints.

The idea of the hero in Greco-Roman culture was integrated into the idea of the saint (in the process of conversion and totalization) by way of Christianity's adoption of and ancestry in the Greco-Roman culture. As Professor Ambrosio indicates, "The need and the search for meaning is shared by all human beings" (Hero or Saint Saul of Tarsus). Thus, it is no surprise to find that a pagan Greco-Roman title is applicable to a Christian whose virtue is viewed as greater than that of ordinary men just as the hero is viewed as greater (in fame, bravery, strength) than ordinary men. The fact that two of early Christianity's most heroic figures (St. Paul and St. Augustine) were Roman makes this integration even less surprising. This paper will discuss the way in which the hero is integrated into the idea of the saint by comparing Saul of Tarsus with Augustine of Hippo two men who underwent a conversion and rose to "heroic" or "saintly" heights in terms of Christian virtue.

     Another example, that writing explains much more than a picture is Berger’s On Rembrandt’s “Women in Bed.'; When I look at this painting I see a young woman looking up at something from her bed. He writes “ there is a complicity between the women and the painter. This complicity includes both retinence and abandon , day and night. The curtain of the bed which Hendrickje lifts up her hand , marks the threshold between daytime and nighttime.';( 129) From this painting I could not see any of this. The writing paints this picture in the readers mind, much better than the actual image. This explanation also enables a reader to relate to the writing. From this writing I can see this girl in the bed and almost feel what she is thinking. From the picture all I saw was a girl laying in bed, nothing more.

In order for understanding and interpreting Jesus’ parables, one needs to understand the nature and purpose of the parable. The parable of the sower is considered as the great watershed of all Jesus’ parables. I believe that the right way to express the continuity and the development of Jesus’ thoughts about the connection between the kingdom and himself is by understanding the parable of the Sower. The author in Kingdom, Grace, and Judgement describes the parable of the sower by breaking it into five different proposals and explaining them with different illustrations. These five proposals include catholicity, mystery, actuality, hostility, and response. This paper will discuss mystery and actuality.

Upon discussing about the importance and significance of Christ’s resurrection, there will be a few different, major aspects that this research paper will cover. The resurrection touches many different area of studies. Those who consider this event to be true (doesn’t have to just be Christian only) will have to agree that it’s a historical landmark; a phenomenal, miraculous event that cannot be too easy to explain. On the theological aspect, which all Christians should be take into consideration to ponder and come to a realization that this event (the resurrection) has completely changed the course of human history as regarding to the communion between man and God the Father. A necessary step in the reconciliation process between man’s sinful nature and God as a just judge.