In a message dated 12/05/1999 2:56:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Man is supposed to have been created in God's image, though I think "image"
> has a complicated meaning here is God can't be seen.
>
> pat sloane
God has been seen, just not completely. Moses' encounter with God on the
mountaintop included seeing the 'backside' of God. Luther spoke of God as
both hidden and revealed, thus the images of God are only partial glimpses
into the divine God. Jesus becomes the true point of contact as there is
then a point where the hidden and revealed God are represented in the same
person. Images of Christ then are not only factual representations of the
man Jesus, but also images meant to illicit a faith response.
One of the most startling images of Christ, without beard, is that of the
ceiling portrait of Jesus as pantocrator at the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception in Washington, D.C. If there is a more terrifying picture of
Christ then this, I have not seen it.
Ken A. Grant
South Bend
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