Venice, abandoning the imperial name early in the 12th century, set a precedent about 1192 in the issue of the larger silver grosso or matapan, using the henceforth familiar types of Christ on the reverse and, obverse, St. Mark presenting the gonfalon (the banner of the republic) to the doge.
The book also elaborates and expands upon foreshadowing and "types" of Christ, in effect Christianizing the Old Testament.
(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.
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.
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.
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
Even as political loyalties were being engrossed by the lay state, the "religion of monarchy" derived impetus from the fervent utterance of those who saw in Philip the Fair a type of Christ or the ruler of a chosen and favoured people.
As I matured, I returned in stages -- first with the Gospels, then Acts -- cherrypicking my way around the faded magenta type of Christ's words.
The early Christian church continued and developed the New Testament theme of Isaac as a type of Christ and the Church being both "the son of the promise" and the "father of the faithful".
