THE CROSS.
From a photo by Carlton & Son, Horncastle.
SOMERSBY CROSS.
The Cross
IN
Ritual, Architecture, and Art
BY THE
REV. GEO. S. TYACK, B.A.
LONDON:
WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., 5, FARRINGDON AVENUE.
Preface.
In this work my aim has been to deal in a popular way with the manifolduses of the Cross as the symbol of the Christian Faith. The attemptnecessitates certain limitations; to give prominence to controversialpoints, to go to foreign lands for illustrations and examples when so manyapt ones are to be found at home, or to load the pages withreferences—any of these things would have been opposed to the objectwhich I have set before myself. If my outline be sufficiently broad andclear, and the details, so far as they go, accurate—and to attain this nopains have been spared—I shall be content.
Before closing this brief preface, it is to me both a pleasure and a dutyto express my grateful thanks to my friend and publisher, Mr. WilliamAndrews, for the use of his collection of works, notes, and picturesrelating to the Cross, and from his own productions I have gleaned someout-of-the-way information.
GEO. S. TYACK,
Crowle, Doncaster,
August, 1896.
Contents.
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| 1. | Introductory—The pre-Christian Cross—Primitive cross-forms—The “Graffito blasfemo”—The vision of Constantine—Finding of the “True Cross”—The Crusades—Heraldic Crosses—The Templars, etc.—The Cross in the arms and badges and coinage of modern state | 1 |
| 2. | The Development of the Crucifix—Early symbols of Christ, the Vine, Good Shepherd, etc.—The Agnus Dei—The Vatican Cross—Conciliar authority for Crucifix—The Iconoclasts—Eastern attitude towards images—Character of early crucifixes—Crucifixion scenes—Italian sacred art | 14 |
| 3. | The Cross in Ritual—Prophetic types of the Cross—Sign of the Cross primitive—Method of making—Used in public offices: Eucharist, ordination, baptism, confirmation, public prayer—Processional Cross—Arc ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |