This is a list of stories and concepts described in the bible. Accounts from both old and new testament passages are listed here.

  • Adam-and-Eve

    In the Genesis creation myth Adam & Eve were the first man and women.

  • Annunciation

    The announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus the Son of God.

  • Ascension

    The belief that the resurrected Christ was taken up into heaven some forty days after crucifixion.

  • Assumption

    The belief that the body of the Virgin Mary was taking up to heaven and reunited with her soul.

  • Baptism

    Application of water as a symbolic washing away of sin, as part of the ceremonial initiation into the Christian church.

  • Christ-in-Majesty

    Christ as s ruler of the universe. Normally he is in a mandorla and surrounded by other figures and objects.

  • Coronation-of-the-Virgin

    A subject in Christian Art where the Virgin Mary is shown being crowned on arrival in heaven, or sat on a throne with a crown beside her son. Though the later depiction is not strictly a crowning it is treated as such here.

  • Creation

    The creation story as told in Genesis.

  • Crucifixion

    The execution of Jesus, a critical aspect of Christian theology, leading the doctrine of salvation and atonement.

  • Ecce-homo

    A bound Jesus Christ wearing the crown of thorns. Ecce Homo (behold the man) is the Latin phrase that Pontius Pilate when Christ was presented to the crowd just before the crucifixion.

    The image has been popular in depictions of the Passion in western art particularly during the 15th to 17th centuries.

  • Epiphany

    The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.

  • Flight-into-Egypt

    Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus' escape after a warning that King Herod intended to kill all the infants in the area.

  • Good-Samaritan

    One of the parables told by Jesus in Luke 10:30/33.

  • Good-Shepherd

    A depiction of Jesus as a shepherd that lays down his life for his flock.

  • Harrowing-of-Hell

    An 8th century invention where Christ is supposed to have released the Righteous of the Old Testament along with Adam and Eve from Hell.

  • Healing

    Images concerned with miraculous healing

  • Immaculate-Conception

    Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without sin. Although a popular belief for a number of centuries, it only became part of the dogma in the 19th century.

  • Jesus-Amongst-the-Doctors

    A missing Jesus is found by his parents in discussion with the temple elders.

  • Jesus-Blesses-Children

    Jesus welcomes children with love and teaches their value in God’s kingdom.

  • Last-Judgement

    In Christian belief this is the final and eternal judgement by God of all nations at the end of history.

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