Sentence examples for type of christ from inspiring English sources

(It may have been that the potential for identifying Charles Wallace as a type of Christ child made people uncomfortable).

Though grounded in theatrical illusion, the puppet Petrouchka, who has "died" for love as a type of Christ, is more real than the Charlatan wants to think.

Porgy, who seems at times like a type of Christ, at times like Adam before and after the Fall, is torn between "doctor Jesus" and his "sometime thing" Princess of Darkness, but it is no contest.

And Gide's Perséphone can be read as a type of Christ, sacrificing her own life to redeem human suffering, or as an image of the socially committed artist, who moves between the realms of aesthetic delight and human misery.

The writer of the Hebrews treats the priest-king of Salem, Melchizedek, who was involved with Abraham as a type of Christ (Hebrews 7)—without using the word type and the Levitical ritual of the Day of Atonement as a model (though an imperfect one) of Christ's sacrificial ministry (Hebrews 9).

Beside the child as Christ (each child is a type of Christ), Kasischke arrays less hopeful adults: Lazarus as a florist, delivering unwelcome messages, afraid to sleep; car passengers in a hospital parking lot; her father envisioned posthumously "in the massive shadows / of the columns / of the Museum of Griefs-to-Come Griefs-to-Come Griefs-to-Come

The book also elaborates and expands upon foreshadowing and "types" of Christ, in effect Christianizing the Old Testament.

Perhaps the most obvious difference between tragic compassion and Mother Teresa's is the fact that the latter involves the proposition the sufferer is a type (brother, sister, beloved) of Christ.

The tension between these two types of Christology (doctrines of Christ) first became acute in the debate between the schools of Antioch and Alexandria in the late 4th century.

Paul sees Adam as a forerunner to Christ, "a type of the one who was to come" (Romans 5 12).

This type of Christianity is not about following the teachings of Christ (as in Matthew 25 on caring for the poor).