In this essay, I will be explaining and highlighting the ways, Jesus is presented in popular culture. I will be explaining and highlighting the positive and negative effects of this question through three concepts and theories, which is transcribed, contextualized and satirized. Additionally, I will explain the four different types of New Testament, which are Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John as these gospels tell us what individuals believed about Jesus. Popular Culture is defined, as arranged as beliefs, practices, and objects that demonstrate through cultural products such as high culture, mass culture, and folk culture that represented in social systems. Considering popular culture changes or shifts during over the time period, where this is …show more content…
Satirized, are the drawings, and painting of Jesus looks like, such as Jesus is representing by drawings, paintings, and other art. Satirized represented Jesus in the popular culture through the way is portrayed and depict through exaggeration, humor, and irony, that shows Jesus’s religions by commodification. Where Jesus was portrayed and represented in popular culture through a ridicule and negative way. Such as, (Burridge, 2014) Mathew’s gospels of the New Testament, he explains how the drawings could have influences on the societies, such as the effects of Jesus biting rhetoric might have on other individuals, which could be positive and negative influences of the societies, but where this leads to way Jesus being represented in the societies through popular culture. Considering in today's century, Jesus is being represented in the popular culture in a negative way such as that the products of Jesus is being used in ways to create more money in the capitalist economy and also that social media is mocking Jesus and the fundamentals beliefs of the culture of Christianity as Jesus had “risen from death”, Such as in the 21st century Jesus is being portrayed as a powerless prophet, Whereas this shows the stereotypes and racisms due to the fundamentals beliefs of the Christianity religion, as the people of the societies have become more secular. As comparing back to the bible, Jesus was represented through the formative symbols and images of Jesus that shows faith within the societies but however due to the new generations, this historical symbols and images were destroyed, such as the young youth of the new generations is use Jesus in the popular culture like TV shows and music, to emulate Jesus in a negative way. Like for example (Forbes, & Mahan, 2017) family guy, there was a character that represented Jesus but was not shown as the depict person, but more shown as a powerless person,
The various symbols Jesus employs in his preaching reflect the common lives of most of his hearers. The agrarian and pastoral themes were especially popular, because many Israelites were farmers and shepherds. Most of Jesus’ parables and
Jesus and the Disinherited begins the first chapter with the interpretation of Jesus. Dr. Thurman explained that Jesus was a poor Jew and was a minority in the midst of a dominate society. Dr. Thurman gives his analysis on the worldviews Jesus. People around the world have their own interpretation of Jesus; yet, people have an orthodox view of him being fully God and fully man. In chapter one, the author references the nonviolent resistance approach, which is a tactic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr used in the civil rights movements. He interprets Jesus as a black man who lived his life as an outsider in the world. Jesus was the disinherited and oppressed like African Americans.
The message of Jesus is allegorical and counter cultural. An allegory is a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. A counterculture is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.
The books of Matthew and John though have many similarities, also have many differences due to the goals that they are trying to achieve and the importance of points/events they are trying to get across. The reason behind the initial portrayals of Jesus helps achieve the goals of each book; whereas Matthew’s book tries to ‘convince’ the educated readers and quarrelers (Pharisees), John’s book does not care much about reputation per se. For example, Jesus turns on the Jews who believe in him to generate a readers response to him as the definitive expression of God 's will or revelation as opposed to Matthew’s intentional readers response to God 's will as expressed in the Mosaic Law. While there are many qualities I could delve into regarding the difference in characters of Jesus, my essay in particular will look at what each book views is especially important with regard to Jesus and his intentions. Specifically, my main focus will be on the presentation of Jesus and reasons for doing so; setting in context what the book is basically about.
The book of Matthew tells of the good news regarding the long awaited Messiah – the one who came to save both the Jews and Gentiles. Matthew portrays Jesus as the Son of God – the promised Messiah, the King over Israel. He depicts Jesus as authoritative, just, and compassionate. Jesus is portrayed, by Matthew, as strong. Matthew validates that Jesus is the Son of God, who through the ages, has been prophesied of. Matthew portrays Jesus as a supreme teacher and healer.
The scene relates to the 70s in terms of having that “rock star” image with pop culture. Jesus’ popularity with people and how they responded to him was like the 60s and 70s where teens idolized Elvis and the Beetles. Also associate with Fame, especially with teens was not being accepted by
The Middle Ages, contrary to its name, was a dynamic period of innovations. Throughout this period, visual arts were employed to communicate important messages to the public as well as private wealthy patrons. A variety of mediums were used to disseminate ideas. Though, the sense of decorum shifted, the purpose of these moralizing images of religious figures remained the same. Art was, as it still is an extremely useful and powerful tool for both religious and political advancements. The two pieces to be considered in this paper were created using scenes from the life of Christ. Themes from the old and new testaments were frequently used in art of the Middle Ages to convey important messages to a largely illiterate populous, display the
Two millennia ago, “the word was made flesh” and Christ was born into this world with a human body. The Incarnation has become central to all Western Civilization, forming a cornerstone belief of Christianity. This is an enduring theme that connects works of art across the broad spectrum of western tradition. Artists throughout history have been creating works of art depicting the reality of His mortal childhood. Yet, the meaning and representation of His physicality differs across generations. As a result, it is crucial to understand the context in which the piece was created and how it affects the subject. Why did the Child Christ become a popular image to portray through the centuries and why do we continue to find meaning in a child born nearly two millennia ago?
The New Testament includes four Gospels that encompass a variety of narrative accounts relating to Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Matthew; is sequentially placed as the first book within the New Testament. Furthermore, it is a canonical account of the life of Jesus, and is recognized as one of the synoptic Gospels. These accounts are divided into twenty eight chapters that appear in the form of a parable, proverb, law, or miracle story found within modern day poetry, letters, or literary tracts. Moreover, each narrative account possesses influential and intellectual material that attracts readers to examine it further. However, out of the four Gospels, Matthew’s is the one that encompasses the most amount of text that bestows an array of
The painting consists of a tightly compact figurative group consisting of six people, including the dead Christ. The upper half of Christ's body is being supported by John the Evangelist, his right hand inadvertently fingering Christ's stab wound; the lower half is carried supported by Saint Nicodemus. Nicodemus is the dominant character in the picture and his body is its compositional and spiritual anchor. He stares unflinchingly at us out of the picture-plane, almost challenging us to interfere with the ritual, and in the process drawing us into the picture. Behind the two men, the three women are grouped in a fan-like shape. They include: the partly obscured Virgin Mary on the right, depicted here as an elderly nun, who extends her arms horizontally in a picture-wide blessing and acceptance of what has happened. In the center, face shadowed, is Mary Magdalene, the female follower of Jesus, who dries her tears with a white handkerchief. On the right is the wailing Mary of Clopas, sister of the Virgin Mary, who raises her arms to heaven.
Jesus in Christianity is looked and written as a Messiah. Through the incarnation of God, he comes to teach, suffer and die for the people’s sins. In Christianity, Jesus is believed to be born through the Immaculate Conception: the idea that the Virgin Mary was preserved by God the moment she was conceived. Through Jesus’ resurrection, humans can be forgiven for sin and offered salvation from God and promised an eternal life. Most humans believe that Jesus is both human and spirit, the son of God. Jesus through reincarnation into full human flesh and blood suffers all pains and temptations of mortal man, yet still does not sin. His teachings turn the world upside-down. He teaches the people that the Kingdom of God, or
The chapter starts with a quote about Jesus by Napoleon. There was one part that I agreed with Napoleon. He mentions that he tried to search history to find if there is anyone similar to Jesus, but his search was fruitless (Yancey 47). Throughout the years since Jesus’ death and resurrection, there has been no one that comes close to being similar to Jesus because Jesus is one of a kind. He is the Son of God, after all. Yes, our world would be a much better place if there was a person similar to Jesus alive today, but that would defeat the purpose of Jesus’ second coming. Why would we want a person that is similar to Jesus when we can have Jesus himself?
Even as a child, I did not put much thought of Jesus Christ. He was simply a man in agony to the cross and I cannot feel the pain like he does. I felt smothered with the gospel and scriptures; Eventually I tuned them out. However, as I grew older I discovered the value of Christ. The life of Jesus changed the course of history by bringing a different view into the world. It is radically different when he was alive and amazed people because of his ideas. What can I learn from the life of Jesus? I am Christian and learning from the parables and scriptures; I understand a glimpse of Jesus’s intentions for the world. This paper will focus on myself and what I learned from the teachings of Jesus in the parables, social change, and how I define him. This tie is about what Jesus is described; His worldview, leadership, values, and communication. The sets of points and their relation to my worldview starts in his
Before delving into the subject of Jesus as a reformer, the concept of mythmaking and social must be explored. As we all know, the emergence of Christianity involves a group of people whom gathered together beneath the same religious experience. Similar to nationalism, "the myths, rituals, symbols, beliefs and patterns of thinking [...] are shared by a people" (Mack 254). This means that religion involves a society and thus holds a social function. The Mack article continues to explain how people construct societies and the tensions
To start off, I will say a very simple fact, Jesus is everything and everyone. Jesus is all that is around us. When I say this I mean that Jesus is the reason we are where we are, He made everything possible for us and we don’t understand that. Jesus is a symbol of strength, Saving grace, human weakness, hope, life, love, understanding, knowledge, wisdom and almost any other intangible definition of humanity that we could think of. The reason I say this is because Jesus of scripture was everything good in the world and also he highlighted humanity as we are. Jesus in scripture is shown in every situation and can be applied to our world as a symbol. He is in all that is good and also in any situation that is bad. I don’t mean bad as in he is the creator of evil because that would be a complete religious contradiction. I mean that Jesus is the hope in any bad situation. He is what makes evil turn out good. Jesus makes anything bad become understandable through all that He means.