A Christ figure, also known as a Christ-Image, is a literary technique that the author uses to draw allusions between their characters and the biblical...
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interview, "I don't think of Severian as being a Christ figure; I think of Severian as being a Christian figure. He is a man who has been born into a very perverse...
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also called a rhetorical figure Christ figure, a type of character in typesetting, text figures and lining figures Figure, a synonym for number Significant...
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Jesus H. Christ is an expletive[citation needed] interjection that refers to the Christian religious figure of Jesus Christ. It is typically uttered in...
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Frodo Baggins (category Christ figures in fiction)
one complete, concrete, visible Christ figure in The Lord of the Rings, but Frodo serves as the priestly aspect of Christ, alongside Gandalf as prophet...
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Aragorn (category Christ figures in fiction)
armies to retake their kingdoms. Aragorn has been compared to the figure of Christ as King, complete with the use of prophecy paralleling the Old Testament's...
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the figure changed, and the Christ figure became a Man of Sorrows, with the weight of the press bearing down on him, often shown as a bent figure as in...
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as a child in the Holy Family Christ Pantocrator, a specific depiction of Christ, one of the names of God Christ figure, a stock character that draws...
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Gandalf (category Christ figures in fiction)
theologians have likened Gandalf's return as a "gleaming white" figure to the transfiguration of Christ. The philosopher Peter Kreeft, like Tolkien a Roman Catholic...
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Jesus (redirect from Jesus Christ)
Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the central figure of Christianity...
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Jesus Christ refers to the central figure of Christianity or the following, "Jesus Christ" (Longpigs song), 1996 song by Longpigs. "Jesus Christ" (Woody...
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scene in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective. James Cole is a notable Christ figure in the film. The film is significant in the genre of science-fiction...
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Christianity in Middle-earth (section Christ)
including the Akallabêth (The Downfall of Númenor). There is no single Christ-figure comparable to C. S. Lewis's Aslan in his Narnia books, but the characters...
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flagellated Christ would represent the suffering of Constantinople, then besieged by the Ottomans, as well as the whole of Christianity. The figure on the...
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halo. Between his feet is a life sized figure of a man, made diminutive by the colossal scale of the Christ-figure. At the base of the tapestry is a small...
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Western world: the serial killer, the private investigator, and the Christ figure. The action takes place in Los Angeles, Mindanao and Hong Kong and brings...
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Harry Potter (character) (category Christ figures in fiction)
have argued that Potter is a Christ figure in the series. Killinger opined in 2002 that "J.K. Rowling has written the Christ story of the 21st century,...
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Mogao Christian painting (redirect from Painting of a Nestorian Christian figure)
based on the icon of Christ that the Persian missionary Alopen carried to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire. The figure with the right hand held...
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The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mel Gibson. It stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus...
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half-length Christ Pantocrator, "Christ, Ruler of All", a usually unaccompanied figure, and the Deesis, where a full-length enthroned Christ is entreated...
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giving the thumbs-up sign with the other hand. Buddy Christ was later produced as an action figure and a bobblehead. The image has since been turned into...
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Scott "the black corpse floating in the national psyche," as well as a Christ figure—a living (and dying) symbol of suffering black men. Rufus's death has...
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Severian (character) (category Christ figures in fiction)
interview, "I don't think of Severian as being a Christ figure; I think of Severian as being a Christian figure. He is a man who has been born into a very perverse...
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interpreted as representing the death of Christ. From there, Tom takes over, rising in Casy's place as the Christ figure risen from the dead. However, the religious...
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Arma Christi (redirect from Weapons of Christ)
the Late Middle Ages. Typically they surround either a cross or a figure of Christ of the Man of Sorrows type, either placed around the composition, or...
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The Christ myth theory, also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, or the Jesus ahistoricity theory, is the view that the story of Jesus is...
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of the Lexington Theological Seminary wrote in Patheos of Batty as a Christ figure. She comments on seeing Batty, with a nail through the palm of his hand...
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the Matrix, and promotes its hero, Neo, from confused draftee to a Christ figure in training." He also compared the choreography of the "Burly Brawl"...
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line with traditional symbolism the figures are Christ and his 12 Apostles. Christ is the central figure in the painting placed directly on the horizon...
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Christians against seeing The Phantom Menace because it portrays Anakin as a Christ figure. The slime-mold beetle Agathidium vaderi is named after Vader, as is...
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