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Truth in Stone and MarbleLiterature & the Arts
Truth in Stone and Marble
The early church developed a visual language to express their faith in art.
Jennifer Hevelone-Harper

Our college recently built a large chapel designed in the style of a traditional New England church, with a tall white steeple. Inside are simple pews, white walls, large clear windows with a few smaller bits of medieval stained glass in the front preserved from the earlier chapel on campus. It is a beautiful building and one quite comfortable for many American Christians. …   More …



DID YOU KNOW:  Worship in the Early Church

ARMCHAIR HISTORIAN:  Bridging the Local and the Global

CH BLOG:   When Disaster Brought Church Unity

QUIZ:  Picturing Faith

TODAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY:  November 26

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:  Basil, from Exegetical Works, On the Hexameron


Did You Know?

One of the best known early Christian symbols, because of its modern revival, is the fish. Some early Christians made the Greek word for fish, ichthus, into an acronym for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior." (See "The Original Christian Bumper Sticker" by Collin Hansen.) Tertullian, a theologian writing at beginning of the third century, interpreted this practice as a symbol of baptism: "But we small fishes, named after our great ICHTHUS, Jesus Christ, are born in water and only by remaining in water can we live."
—Everett Ferguson

You can learn more about Worship in the Early Church in our archives.



Armchair Historian

Bridging the Local and the Global
Dana Robert traces Christianity's cross-cultural success.
Reviewed by Joel Carpenter

Dana L. Robert, Christian Mission: How Christianity Became A World Religion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)


Quiz

Picturing FaithPicturing Faith

For the past two millennia, Christians have found creative and sometimes controversial ways of expressing their faith visually. Test your knowledge with this quiz, then check out the Literature & the Arts section of our archives. There are also art-related articles in Christian History Issue 49: Everyday Faith in the Middle Ages and Issue 54: Eastern Orthodoxy.



Today in Christian History

November 26, 1862: President Abraham Lincoln meets Harriet Beecher Stowe, the abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and daughter of prominent minister Lyman Beecher. "So," Lincoln said upon meeting her, "you're the little woman that wrote the book that made this great war!" (see issue 33: Christianity and the Civil War).

November 26, 1883: Evangelist and abolitionist Sojourner Truth (whose real name was Isabella Van Wagener), dies in Battle Creek, Michigan. Born a slave, Truth experienced visions and voices, which she attributed to God, and was one of the most charismatic abolitionists and suffragists of her day (see issue 62: Bound for Canaan).

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Quote of the Week

" … the world is a work of art, set before all for contemplation, so that through it the wisdom of Him who created it should be known …"

—Basil, from Exegetical Works, On the Hexameron




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