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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image is from Luther's publication of the Theologia Deutsch (German Theology), written many years earlier by an unknown disciple of the Medieval German mystic, Johannes Tauler (ca. 1300-1361). Luther says in his preface that he has learned more from it than from any other book, excepting the... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This woodcut of the crucifixion of Jesus shows his mother Mary and the disciple John (his attribute, the book, in hand) looking on with the Roman soldiers and Jerusalem in the background. It was one of several illustrations in Michael Helding’s Roman Catholic catechism. Moderate Catholic suffraga... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: For this image: The text around the woodcut is taken from Galatians 6:14. “Far be it from me that I should boast, except in the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.” -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This image of Jesus depicts him as the “man of sorrows” (cf. Isaiah 53:3 and the history of its Christian interpretation), surrounded by the instru-ments of his suffering and death (e.g. spear, cross, hammer, die, scourge, crown of thorns). It is used as a title-page illustration for one of Luthe... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: This medallion illustrations shows the transfigured Jesus, flanked by Moses and Elijah and receiving the adoration of the dsiciples Peter, James, and John -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: John's vision of Christ (Rev. 1:12-17) with a sword emerging from his mouth and seven stars in his right hand; seven lampstands and a reclining John are at his feet. From the Dietenberger Bible, the German trans-lation issued by Johann Dietenberger (d. 1534) as a Roman Catholic Response to Luthe... -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Crucifixion. Jesus Christ is crucified, with the inscription "INRI" overhead, one soldier standing guard beneath the cross, two more on horseback, one lifting a spear to Jesus' side, and two of Jesus' followers barely visible at the lefthand edge. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The Last Supper or Eucharist, instituted by Jesus Christ as he and his disciples eat the Passover meal. A basin and flagon are on the floor in the foreground; two windows flank the head of Jesus. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Leading out a group of armed guards with torches, Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus Christ with a kiss; Simon Peter stands with sword raised above one of the guards, who kneels on the ground with his lantern. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Pilate brings Jesus Christ, arrayed with a crown of thorns and a reed scepter, out before a crowd below.