![]() ![]() ![]() crosses with intersecting beams, appears in Christian art towards the end of Late Antiquity. While early Christians used the T-shape to represent the cross in writing and gesture, the use of the Greek cross and Latin cross, i.e. In his book De Corona, written in 204, Tertullian tells how it was already a tradition for Christians to trace repeatedly on their foreheads the sign of the cross. "adorers of the gibbet"), and returns the accusation by likening the worship of pagan idols to the worship of poles or stakes. Ĭlement's contemporary Tertullian also rejects the accusation that Christians are crucis religiosi (i.e. Clement of Alexandria in the early 3rd century calls it τὸ κυριακὸν σημεῖον ("the Lord's sign") he repeats the idea, current as early as the Epistle of Barnabas, that the number 318 (in Greek numerals, ΤΙΗ) in Genesis 14:14 was a foreshadowing (a "type") of the cross (T, an upright with crossbar, standing for 300) and of Jesus (ΙΗ, the first two letters of his name ΙΗΣΟΥΣ, standing for 18). ![]() The cross (crucifix, Greek stauros) in this period was represented by the letter T. Īt the end of the 2nd century, it is mentioned in the Octavius of Minucius Felix, rejecting the claim by detractors that Christians worship the cross. The shape of the cross, as represented by the letter T, came to be used as a "seal" or symbol of Early Christianity by the 2nd century. 695–698) on the obverse, a stepped cross in the shape of an Iota Eta monogram. Early use of a globus cruciger on a solidus minted by Leontios (r. Main article: Christian cross The Crucifix, a cross with corpus, a symbol used in the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglicanism, in contrast with some other Protestant denominations, Church of the East, and Armenian Apostolic Church, which use only a bare cross. ![]()
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