euro's. hurting. bad. ones if they're forced over when you think about it. and law professor the crucifixion was incredibly sadistic. and here you see the body covered with blood and wound up on the fingers clenched the hands pierced by nails. because the face still bearing the marks of the final death throes of the agony aunt shell blood everywhere alice is. not the daughter of an arm you see how the other figures it's the people standing under the cross are repelled by this violence they seem to

be crushed by it and go home on the on current demands are. dramas the better for the long fingered john the baptist is pointing to this agony to the horror of this scene in all its ramifications and violence after. the death and resurrection of jesus christ are the central tenets of the christian faith. for two thousand years the symbol of the cross has pointed to this religious mystery. you see it everywhere in the christian world. it is displayed on graves it is a trademark and an ornament. it crowns the highest mountains. yet people have always viewed the cross with revulsion and as a contradiction for the crucifixion combines two seemingly irreconcilable. well

entities cruelty and our yearning for the divine. i associate grace thanksgiving and all with the cross and of course you're going to have your but i have ambivalent feelings about it was i'm not religious so it doesn't speak to me as strict shart people thought i know the meaning of the cross but i just view it as somebody. good for me the main issue for me was how to take it i was a fiction and my intention is simply to make this subject accessible to none of us really know what it's like on all what it isn't like the east or the mission is dismissed me i didn't. begin where does our relationship to the cross begin. where i grew up in the

so-called christian west everybody relates to it that's how we grow up i hope it's you and it's who's with him and so it's him all for some. it's strong because of my subject of the cross forms a large part of my artistic work but i definitely don't want to make a cross simply as a piece of decoration as they call to you i want to use my art to explore who and what we are you manage see inside about you know. with dimension. and then began my is a sculptor who lives in bavaria and south in germany the crucifixion and the cross are central themes in his work. for a new cemetery in munich he has created a crucifixion sculpture that departs from tradition. as intention was to give his

cross something he thinks traditional depictions have lost the mystery. because a sculpture cross in the void. has been of the david coleman i had the idea of making this crossing unsubstantial as a space move the question was how. to form square oak trunks set up in a square with an empty space between them so the cross emerges in outline. form of the moon and where you stand inside it you're standing in this space this unsubstantial across lloyd's and whether you look up you see the cross destroyed. the cross in the void because their space isn't limited and it stretches in every

direction and that's very existential like our earthly existence. of vision. the significance of the cross for christianity began two thousand years ago in jerusalem. here jesus of nazareth called the christ and the son of god by his followers was executed like a common criminal. steadfast in his belief in god's kingdom on earth he was mocked and crucified as king of the jews. his disciples fled in confusion. then we are told he rose from the dead and appeared to them. we parts of this extraordinary event marked the beginning of christianity. the encounter inspired his disciples to go out into the world and

spread his message. the german theologian peter schultz has studied the symbol of the cross and its message. blessed is this god in the fourth what's and possibly the most fascinating thing about the cross is that it challenges us to see the most holy the most divine being that one can imagine the creator of heaven and earth suffering and tortured and dying on the cross. says. even today it's a mystery as to how it could have happened that there were people who saw god in this shocking execution scene. this is a retard they interpret in jesus's death as a reconciliation between god and the world the first modern us

a fiction can be seen in the context of sacrifice an idea we're familiar with in classical antiquity an offering is made to appease god so all you really felt. this is my body which is given for you for the forgiveness of sins these words were reportedly spoken by jesus on the eve of his execution. gradually the idea grew that his death was a cosmic event and that jesus was not simply a man of great wisdom and goodness but god himself. by sharing the life of humans even to the point of dying and then rising from the dead he reversed our fate opening the door to life after death. squads for and a curse living for dr oss was always at the center of the christian message was you see this in the earliest new testament tanks but the visual symbol hardly appears for several centuries was one of the earliest depictions of a crucifixion that we know of is a drawing in rome. a sort of mocking cartoon of

a donkey on a cross court start of the oldest surviving to picture of jesus crucifixion is on the door of the church of st sabina on the oven time hill in rome kids from the fifth century and. so there seems to have been some reticence about depicting the cross in the early church courts as christians in the first centuries seem to have had a problem accepting the symbol of defeat execution and suffering to represent their faith and their god. you're young and forgot. the conversion of the roman emperor constantine marked a turning point legend has it that constantine had a vision on the eve of battle in the year three hundred twelve he saw the cross and the words in this sign conquer. he had crosses painted on his soldiers shields and he won that decisive battle the emperor converted and declared christianity the

state religion. from that point on the cross lost its associations with the shameful death it spread across the roman empire first in the form of a monogram combining in the first two letters of the greek word christophe's keith and fro. over the centuries it was increasingly figured as across. in these early depictions the crucified jesus is shown as christians of that era wish to see him already victorious over life and death living and triumphant. yes i know if that isn't exertion this stone looks very simple at first sight or the cross has arms of equal length from the bar on it's from the seventh century the during the marriage engine dinnerstein the graves of priests and high ranking officials. well marked with stones like this least. as good as darko significance

is that they indicate christian graves or it is because i remember they were still he even in the seventh century who got a high haps the deceased all their relatives and hoped all wish to mark the graves so that none would be forgotten on the day of judgment of our goods but it's kind of a guess and was. originally the symbol of an agonizing and shameful death the cross became a sign of hope and redemption what christians call the mystery of faith. from this point on christians have looked for ways of expressing this faith. they have looked to artists to give visual forms to this provocative mystery and to communicate a belief that elites recent. either

about the next battle aside of his work doesn't look at all like a crucifix or thought of but i would say use of the voice was focusing here in one nine hundred seventy one on aspects of death and resurrection which the cross represents you're here in spirit give it up. a simple wooden crate. an ammunition crate from the second world war its contents represented death. above the great the dead trunk of a spoon. the trunk of a christmas tree as a symbol of christ's birth. nailed to the crate a twisted crucifix a depiction of the crucified christ. and finally on the tree

a small sculpture. a miner's mind as always called the sculpture of a light source. make up the stairs and cost more than i believe it is a universe of ideas searching around the question of the cross is that an hauf is it a sign of hope or is it a symbol of death it is a minute here in this to and fro we as few as a challenge to form our own opinion to adopt our own position. and i think it cannot invent i think that in this way it connects us with a long tradition of the cross as a christian symbol. where confronted with a question what do we want quite simply life or death. leaving the top guns i've.

kammen beagle maya began his artistic career as a wood carver training at the famous obama got school in southern germany where he's now a teacher. the over i'm a gal crucifixes there in the traditional medieval corpus a world famous. as a positive but no i attended the school myself more than forty years ago it was a formative experience and still is this is the students here are all individualists and others it is mostly technical skill that taught here the handicraft here from if they learn how to copy a historical sculpture in this case a figure of christ in exact detail just except it's appropriate and. i. a town full of crucifixes over i'm

a gal in the bavarian alps. the tradition of wood carving here goes back five hundred hears. but religious wood carving is a dime profession. a crucifix in the home common in germany until quite recently is a rarity now. nowadays people who seek spirituality tend to search somewhere else. for many that means nature. mountaintops have always figured as places of spirituality in ancient myths and even biblical stories. places where you can encounter god and through god yourself. christians are no exception and have planted their cross on the peaks.

people who climb mountains often describe experiences they can't find elsewhere. perhaps because the wide vistas make them aware of their own weakness and imperfections. and. that's the nature does have a special spirituality it has its own spirit. guys that all feel it but this aura of holiness is closely related to what religions associate with the divine and the holy with him. in hiding for being. in eight hundred ten the german romantic artist cast by david flint white painted mourning in the lease and get beyond that at the time people argued about whether

the cross was appropriately displayed. but the artist stood at the vanguard of a new movement. more down the quotes of stuff the law modern depictions of the process usually play with the idea of disappearance with distance with a transitory in the historical cross on gaza appears to be sinking further and further into the fog of history it's infinitely far away. the only way left open to us to keep it in the present is not the historical reconstruction of events that occurred two thousand years ago but to grasp it inwardly you know if you're a fossil. what for me could the symbolism of the cross adopt now.

hammond beagle meyers killed it wouldn't sculpture evolved from the idea of folding a blank sheet of paper. and folding the paper he created a cross. god to send people have been making crosses for more than two thousand years so it's very difficult to come up with a new version of a new perspective a new way of depicting the cross. boston as well as a to find it. legal mire has little interest in art as an an with flecked of active piety he's more interested in the conflict between art and faith. you missed the officer when both of them there was i always like to try something new the reason i like this piece of wood is that it gives me a structure. a subject of the cross isn't limited to the material it scatters

visually it radiates insists on the op to get this done saw that's the idea is that it's always a lot however i only know if it works after i've done it i first have to try it or . reason to easiest when it's bought up was abolished libyan. cologne cathedral. in one of the side chapels a sculpture produced in the year nine hundred seventy. this is the garo cross the oldest extant crucifix that no longer shows christ in a triumphant heroic posture but in his wounded humanity tortured and already dead. it was a watershed in the art of depicting the chris of fiction. around the turn of the first millennium a new school of theology involved emphasizing

a more human redeemer one who had truly suffered. artists began portraying christ's death on the cross in gory detail the welts of his lashing his dislocated limbs. the suffering of jesus was interpreted as a declaration of god's love for the world a love that never abandons but shares in the experiences of people even the experiences of suffering and death. this is over one this is an ivory cross from around eleven sixty becomes a period in which artists could show christ either alive or dead it's hard to read

because this is i'm still the living christ is the more original the older version inherited from the early middle ages and helpful he's a ruler who stands on the cross of another development to place around the turn of the millennium portraying the suffering christ as the sideboard and the emphasis was no longer on the roulette but on the suffering human dimension luke this is the mishal this crucifix is a mixture of the two the body isn't really hanging on the cross it's still standing what it was there was less life in it and of. that the eyes are closed in death. one comes in different so you see that the feet are rather smooth as opposed to food as one that suggests that they were often touched and. possibly kissed. it's clearly an object that was venerated over a long period one that people prayed in front of. how can the historical golgotha event ever be depicted adequately how can we capture it in the

present. even the attempt to do so has had its religious critics. a catechism written by a dutch jesuit in sixteen zero six describes important aspects of the christian life in one hundred chapters. it ends with an engraving bearing the caption views of the origin of faith. first lists like that any basic craving is a very large version of the scene on god. it shows christ carrying his cross and visibly suffering surrounded by a throng of painters sitting in front of the easels obviously trying to capture the scene on canvas you know however if you look closely you'll see that none of them is really able to do this with this there's a completely different scene on each canvas and some of them are absurd and was of

. the painters are only portraying their own view of the event the engraving suggests that every dish will representation of christ says more about the artist than their subject when curtis lights or interview could perhaps interpret it as saying what the real meaning of the scene cannot be visualized by the painters are obviously painting something else just as every attempt to explain the process and its meaning to articulate it or to be painted on a mental canvas is doomed to fail so article young let's try it on most. does the cross symbolize hope doesn't provide assurance or give rise to doubt. for the faithful the. cross also represents the mystery of what happened after jesus's death. without the resurrection it would not have become such a powerful symbol of christianity.

one of how many beagle meyer sculptures portrays both death and resurrection. during the christian holy week and it easter it's on display at a village church in bavaria big concert resurrection cross. the cup i wanted to portray the cross or the resurrection cross floating in the yet not touching the ground it's unsubstantial and the body is no longer hanging on it it well the first mistake is hot and covered with this. easter the feast of the resurrection is inextricably linked with good friday the day jesus died. the story of jesus doesn't end with his death on the cross it

begins a new life with resurrection which clover the. good ark of all fifty of the profound meaning of the resurrection of jesus all is one of redemption and of much but death and dying have no more power over us see here in the end toward fall in with the message and purpose of jesus his life and preaching is that god is close to us especially when we feel that he's absent but scott of course dimension. says it was on the film for. soon the angst of our sins and our fears do not have the final word that is the mystery behind across cords. people have been trying to understand this mystery for two thousand years cam and diggle my last contribution is a cross made of cloth like those in which jesus is crucified body was wrapped william's thought of does this team of the clouds flow to me yet be the folds and the

directions in which they're pointing are like rays of light clothes don't normally fall like this is all true but you can sense the body between them as if the body was still there but it isn't there as you did that can the same way the cross also isn't there anymore only the clothes are there to signify the person humanity the cross resurrection god's oversteer.

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