Images of God in Christian art, have regularly reflected a lack of imagination when it comes to the diversity of God’s people. Art, it could be said has a crucial role to play in challenging racial prejudice in the world and in the Church today.
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Holbein's Dead Christ, Dostoevsky's Idiot, and Chalcedon's Jesus
Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521—1522) depicts, in unforgiving realism, the mutilated corpse of a crucified man, claustrophobically entombed. There is no indication of who the man is in the painting per se; the identity of the anonymous criminal has be to imposed, from above as it were, in an inscription borne by angels, IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM.