| Title: | Doubting Thomas |
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| Notes: | "The self-critical potential of the Johannine text is dramatized within the text itself. Following Thomas' confession of Jesus as 'my Lord and my God', Jesus replies: 'Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe' (John 20:28-9). The risen Jesus appears to his disciples precisely so that they may see and believe: seeing (and touching), they are not to be unbelieving but believing. There is no other rationale for these appearances than to elicit faith. And yet Jesus' words to Thomas imply a criticism of a faith based on sight. There is no suggestion that later believers who do not see are dependent on a report of what was once seen by apostolic eyewitnesses. On the contrary, the blessing Jesus pronounces is nothing less than a critique of the notion of the apostolic eyewitness, most prominent in Luke-Acts but also tacitly present in the Johannine text itself." (Rowland/Tuckett, 251) |
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| Date: | Early 12th century |
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| Building: | Abbey Church of St. Nectaire
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| Object/Function: | Relief sculpture |
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| City/Town: | St. Nectaire
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| Country: | France
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| Scripture: | John 20:19-23
John 20:24-29
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| Person as Subject: | Thomas, the Apostle
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| Attribution: | Doubting Thomas, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54207 [retrieved May 19, 2013]. Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sacred_destinations/2581797880/. |
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| Record Number: | 54207
Last Updated: 2011-04-27 16:52:59
Record Created: 2009-02-09 11:28:19 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Nature of New Testament theology |
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| Author: | Rowland, Christopher and Christopher Mark Tuckett |
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| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
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| Date: | 2006 |
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