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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 5/2/2002 5:22 PM (GMT -6) |   | HERE'S ONE FOR ANYBODY....
What do you think?
Was it the intent of the artist to show a multi-level marketing scheme, a pyramid scam? Is this a case of bureaucratic hierarchy? Of top-down management culture?
Does this picture show, then -- specifically -- the "saints in...heaven" (as we sing in "Oh For a Thousand Tongues to Sing") as a road block solely-through-whom we can come to Christ or receive His grace (the basic Evangelical interpretation of the Reformations fear of all things Catholic)?
(NOTICE that they are inside and above the circumference outlining the dome. Easily, then, there is a dualism set up; one which Evangelicals easily affirm: they have died and we have not! All that they are is what survives. In the words of the Heidelberg Catachism, death has put an end to all their sinning. And in Christ the curse of death from sin is put to its end.)
Or, does this picture show that THEIR life is soley from that one Mediator, Christ. Their life is from the light of Christ that enlightens the world! And the reason we "below" (we are looking up) are given their witness is to show, more than just the particular incidentals of their earthly lives, that witness which is testemony to the saving light of Christ--the True Light. (Notice the lightened reflective surfaces of the ribs of the vault--like a Bunt-cake pan.)
This picture shows, I think, that We all, "saints on earth and heaven" have ONE Mediator--the same.
(The Holy Savior in Chora — South dome of the esonarthex.)
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