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The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: The Return (1882) James Tissot 1836 – 1902
From: http://www.artbible.info/art/large/493.html
Tissot places the story of the prodigal son who returns to his father repenting in a contemporary context. The son's ship has just come in and his father awaits him at the quay.
Perhaps Tissot was inspired by this depiction of the story by Rembrandt. Here too the bystanders look on in silence, impressed by the scene. Twenty years earlier, Tissot made a Prodigal son set in Paris.
Tissot lived in London when he made this painting. He enjoyed spending time in the Port of London and often used it as a setting for his work.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Colbert Video: The Bible out of context
Here’s an entertaining video of Colbert defending the authenticity of the Bible. He actually does a great job and keeps it very funny as he goes.
The confused soul that plays Colbert’s guest in this clip is out promoting his new book, “Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the hidden contradictions in the Bible.” It’s one more sad example of how the tradition of interpreting the Bible out of context or using it as something that it’s not has done tremendous damage to the truth of Christianity.
Shoot - we now have an entire culture of even Christians who have taken it upon themselves to interpret Sacred Scripture independent of Sacred Tradition and the Church that gave it to us. And then they go out and come to their own fallible conclusions about it based solely on their own, personal authority. So I suppose we can’t be too surprised when non-believers claim to disprove Christianity using the same exact method. We need to rethink why we believe in the Bible in the first place.
Hope you enjoy the video!
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The confused soul that plays Colbert’s guest in this clip is out promoting his new book, “Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the hidden contradictions in the Bible.” It’s one more sad example of how the tradition of interpreting the Bible out of context or using it as something that it’s not has done tremendous damage to the truth of Christianity.
Shoot - we now have an entire culture of even Christians who have taken it upon themselves to interpret Sacred Scripture independent of Sacred Tradition and the Church that gave it to us. And then they go out and come to their own fallible conclusions about it based solely on their own, personal authority. So I suppose we can’t be too surprised when non-believers claim to disprove Christianity using the same exact method. We need to rethink why we believe in the Bible in the first place.
Hope you enjoy the video!
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Happy God’s Green Earth Day
Happy God’s Green Earth Day
Earth day is a great day to remember and give thanks to God for His creation. It’s absolutely amazing. Here’s a preview of the new movie, “Earth” - pretty awesome.
Oh, and speaking of how awesome our Earth is…the Vatican is building the largest solar plant in Europe to power Vatican State and then export the mostly excess energy to surrounding Italy. Will be an interesting endeavor
The previous comments concerning the film come via "Fallible Blogma" (linked to title)
Earth day is a great day to remember and give thanks to God for His creation. It’s absolutely amazing. Here’s a preview of the new movie, “Earth” - pretty awesome.
Oh, and speaking of how awesome our Earth is…the Vatican is building the largest solar plant in Europe to power Vatican State and then export the mostly excess energy to surrounding Italy. Will be an interesting endeavor
The previous comments concerning the film come via "Fallible Blogma" (linked to title)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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