HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Funerary Art, Toleration, Messiah In Judaism
13 Dec 2018
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Art: one aspect separating christianity and judaism and islam is the role of visual art. The early church established the canon and statement of orthodoxy, visual art flourished, including painting and sculpture. Origins: christianity emerged as a sect of judaism, jesus was a jew himself, christianity only gradually became a separate religious tradition, the main sources of information are the four gospels of matthew, mark, luke, and. Magi: the gospel according to john, more philosophical, mystical, and messianic, apocrypha, books that did not make it into the christian canon. Other documents: the document known as the didache, teachings of the lord to the gentiles by the. Twelve apostles, : was probably written in syria, in the first century, first known example of a church order, the apostilic traditions is a work often attributed to hippolytus, earliest example of full text of a eucharistic prayer. Some converted to paganism, others went into hiding, and still others were martyred.
