Sentence examples for head christ from inspiring English sources

The concept is rooted in the New Testament and possibly reflects Christianity's roots in Judaism; St . Pauls letters to the Corinthians and Romans both use the image of a body, with a head (Christ) and many members (Christians) to describe the relationship between Christ and Christians.

Among the works in his possession were three small paintings of Jesus, one listed as "Head of Christ, done from life".

Their masculine but soft-spoken image of Jesus was exemplified by the once-ubiquitous portrait "Head of Christ," made by Warner Sallman in 1941, which depicted a handsome man looking serenely upward.

Slowly but surely, out pops the head of Christ.

Reliquary diptych locket depicting head of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

Over the central portal is a head of Christ with the inscription, "The land of the living".

The head of Christ is bathed in light that is repeated in the smoky lamps so that its true source cannot be known.

It was possible to reconstruct a head of Christ, which shows some stylistic affinity with Carolingian manuscript paintings and probably dates from the 9th, 10th, or 11th century.

Soon after, she said another came -- the head of Christ with a crown of thorns -- as she pushed her shopping cart down Springfield Boulevard in Bayside.

Removing it, she takes it by the base and, showing the head of Christ to the audience she kneels in front of Scarpia and places the crucifix on his chest.

In the 20th century, the United States began exporting such images, most notably Warner Sallman's 1941 "Head of Christ," which is one of the most reproduced images in world history.