Sentences with phrase «crucifixion figure»

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However much the Gospel portraits may have to be scaled down to enable us to see the historical figure of Jesus, they still show us a man who made an impact of such magnitude on those who knew him best and who had left all to follow him, that no unexpected calamity, such as the crucifixion, could have erased this from their thoughts and their experience.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

Even though Jesus climactically fulfills the Servant figure [of Isaiah 53] in his crucifixion, this does not mean that there is no longer any application of it to anyone else.

All the original elements are present, but now there is a background scene not previously to be found, showing in the far distance a crucifixion with figures of mourners.

The motive of crucifixion served as a symbol of pain and death, and Bacon used the allegory to make Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion.

St Just from 1953 (pictured right), another well - known work, named after a mining village near Land's End, was conceived of as a crucifixion in honour of the Cornish miners from which the figure of Christ had, he said, been «napalmed out» — an echo both of the then - ongoing Korean War and his own sufferings in World War Two.

There is also Study for a figure at the base of a crucifixion (1943 — 44), Head I (1947 — 48), Head II (1949) and Study from the Human body (1949).