The cross and art
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Modern evangelical preaching and movies from Hollywood are not the first to dramatize the cross, of course. Take, for example, the following quote that I ran across recently. It will keep me on the lookout next time I’m in an art museum…
“In some ancient Eastern traditions, Adam was buried on Golgotha and his son, Seth, planted a tree on his grave which was later used to make Christ’s cross. From the late tenth century onward in Western art Adam’s skull was sometimes shown at the foot of Christ’s cross, where the atoning blood touches it, removing Adam’s sin and atoning for all humanity” (M. Eugene Boring, Mark: A Commentary, note on p. 427).
