Staff members start tossing out responses from the latest polling: “Some say that thou art ... in our modern sense. Instead, she strives to suggest why the earliest followers of Jesus might ...

Ewan McGregor He portrayed Jesus in the 2015 drama film Last Days in the Desert directed by Rodrigo García. Set during Jesus’ 40 days of fasting and prayer in the wilderness, the film explores ...

Through Nativity art, the Word ... the medieval and early modern periods—whether for economic reasons, as an outworking of their own faith tradition’s reverence for Jesus, or simply out ...

Jesus was walking ... God in the innovative art being erected on the playa. I saw a call to a primitive simplicity in the location of the event: the barren desert, a wilderness.

Meanwhile, renowned director Martin Scorsese is planning a new film about Jesus and so is art house director Terrence ... to reframe Christianity for a modern age and reverse its waning following.

The Shroud of Turin is an ancient cloth which many Christians believe was used to wrap Jesus' mutilated body after ... depictions of him from classical art. Much like the image, the Shroud ...

It feels modern because we have always seen these characters portrayed like they’re stained glass windows or statues.” Some gripes can be incredibly specific, such as skepticism that Jesus eve ...

In his view, Jesus was just a human being ... Spinoza’s apostasy also makes him a key figure in modern Jewish history. He was hardly the first Jew to abandon Judaism, but he might have been ...

For one, it turns out there aren’t physical descriptions of Jesus anywhere in the gospels. We have no idea what he looked like, which means all the subsequent representations of him in art and ...

In the Bible, Jesus is sentenced to die in a “praetorium” a Latin word for the general’s tent in a military encampment. Modern historians ... as medieval art would have it.