Christian Imagination in a Visual Culture
Test your imagination. Do these passages call to mind their Biblical context for you?
- Standing amid the alien corn
- Eyeless in Gaza
- The Prodigal Son
- Who knew not Joseph
- Bricks without straw
- A prophet is not without honour
- Through a glass darkly
- The Good Samaritan
- He fell among thieves
- I, only I am left
- An eye for an eye
- The good shepherd
- Put not your trust in princes
- The last trump
- The scarlet woman
- Cast the first stone
- A time for everything
- The crown of thorns
- In green pastures
- The golden calf
- The widow’s mite
- The widow’s cruse
- The scapegoat
- The lion’s den
- The forbidden fruit
- Shibboleth
- The mote in your own eye
- New wine in old wineskins
- The coat of many colours
- But if not…
- Five small stones
- Doubting Thomas
- The Pharisee
- Tithes
- The wisdom of Solomon
- The strength of Samson
- The jawbone of an ass
- Jacob and Esau
- Gain the whole world
- Eat, drink and be merry
- Publicans and sinners
- The last supper
- Without blemish
- As it was in the days of Noah
- Aaron’s rod that budded
- Streets that are paved with gold
- Man does not live by bread alone
- Out of the strong came forth sweetness
- Above the price of rubies
- Weighed in the balances and found wanting
- A city set on a hill
- For such a time as this
- My brothers’ keeper
- A Damascus road experience
- The first fruits
- Written in stone
- I, being in the way
- The mess of potage