Why the image of the crucifixion should still shock Christians
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Martyn Whittock2022-04-14T14:12:00
Early Christians found the crucifixion so shocking that they didn’t make an image of it for 200 years. But in the centuries since, how the Church portrays the cross has changed many times. Historian Martyn Whittock looks at what's happened
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