The Cross

Table of Contents

The Cross3

Introduction3

Discussion3

History of Cross3

Interpretative meaning:4

Cross and the Sacrament:5

Cross and Creation:6

Cross and enterprising spirit:7

Christianity and Salvation:8

Christian vision of salvation:9

Divergent paths, and perspectives.11

Conclusion:12

The Cross

Introduction

The Christian cross is a religious symbol in Christianity and is the most popular. Its shape varies among different Christian communities. The Catholic Church is a vertical line crossed on top by a horizontal line (Latin cross). In the Orthodox Church dominates the cross with eight arms. Its origin relates to the method of execution of Jesus Christ, which for Christians is a "tree of salvation." Some religious interpretations interpret the vertical portion represents Jesus' divinity and his humanity horizontal. The original term of the instrument of execution in Greek is statures, meaning "stake, stakes, fence, pole, cross, crucifixion" or xylon, which simply means "tree, wood '. That is why some Christian denominations give Name torture stake.

The words “cross "and" crucifix "('fixed to the cross', a cross with the image of Christ in it) come from the derivations of verb Latin cruciare, meaning 'torture'. The church holds two parties related to cross, the Invention of Santa Cruz on May 3, and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sept. 14 (Evans, 2005).

Discussion

History of Cross

It is noteworthy that no vestiges remain of the use of the icon of the cross during the first two centuries of Christianity; it was a particularly painful method of torture. Plotted not the instrument of the Passion of Christ Jesus. The [?.X.T.Y.S.] was the symbol of the early Christians, especially during times of persecution, to covertly identified each other. The fish and the anchor are an ancient symbol seen for instance on coins of Decius. However, there is evidence of the graphic use of the cross, as is the case of graphite Alexamenos (also known as the Palatine graphite), considered by many as the first known pictorial representation of the crucifixion of Jesus, allegedly made by ironically a non-Christian. It ignores the dating of this graphite, may be even pre-Christian, or refer to Set Egyptian Iao or Abraxas.

Upon conversion, the Roman emperor Constantine adopted chrisom. Making it an orthodox Christian symbol. In parallel, it began to use the cross in the third century there was talk of "the religious of the cross" in speaking of Christians. In the first icon shows, Jesus triumphantly out of the cross just in the middle ages, Jesus depicted suffering or death on the crucifix (Aho, 1999).

Interpretative meaning

After the New Testament was Jesus Christ crucified on a cross. The Christians believe that the crucifixion took place on a cross, thus symbolizing the cross of the compound or the 'covenant' between the earthly (horizontal axis of the cross) and the heavenly or divine (vertical axis of the cross). By the revolt, and rebellion against God (sin) is the original connection between humans and God ripped or 'ring' broken. The resulting gap between evil man and holy God is to be bridged only by the intervention of God himself. Man is by nature unable to restore the ...