Images of Jesus through the ages

Author: (American) Palikan Yang Deyou
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: Christian culture is not only a traditional part of Western intellectual and cultural heritage but also remains a fundamental structural element to this day. It has also become a component of Chinese culture. From a modern academic perspective, studying the history and reality of Christian thought and society is a task for Chinese academia. This series is dedicated to building an academic field for the study of Christian culture, primarily reviewing influential works on Christian culture research in Western modern academia, as well as publishing relevant academic research by Chinese scholars, thereby contributing to the development of Chinese humanities, social sciences, and intellectual culture. In Christian theology, there is a specialized field of debate—Christology—which, though not equivalent to the entire domain of Christian theological thought, is indeed one of the most important, distinctive, and even contentious areas. The history of Christology in theology can undoubtedly be a highly meaningful discipline. This book can be regarded as a cultural history of Christology, as it focuses on the Christology within Western cultural forms across generations, rather than the Christology in theological thought. In this sense, it is a creative masterpiece of cultural history that helps provide a more comprehensive understanding of the image of Jesus Christ. This book excellently demonstrates that the image of Jesus Christ in Western cultural history is rich and vivid, fully confirming the broad inspirational impact of the person of Jesus Christ on culture. More importantly, it reminds us to pay attention to the image of Jesus Christ in Chinese culture and to take seriously the different images of Jesus in different historical periods.