The issues that said are a book of the month for April is a collection of more than 600 hand-drawn Christian symbols by artist and author Edward Riohas.

It's titled A Complete Guide to Christian Symbols.

This new resource is published by Concordia Publishing House, their phone

number 1-800-325 3040, or learn more about a complete guide to Christian symbols at

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Christian symbols? I'm talking here about symbols as elementary as the cross or symbols for the Trinity.

Some of them commemorate Christians from the past.

There is usually a symbol for, say, Martin Luther Luther it's quite often his family crest that

would have been Luther's Rose he designed it himself with explicit theological

meaning to it so what do we do with Christian symbols and what about Christians who go to

churches where there are no symbols, maybe not even across? Welcome back to issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to talk about Christian

symbols. Everett Rio has he graduated sumacumlotti from Aquinas College with a

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His sacred artwork can be found in sanctuaries, institutions, private

collections and markets throughout the United States and around the globe and he's

author of the issues that said or a book of the month for April, a complete guide

to Christian symbols.

Ed welcome.

Thank you.

Why have Christians used symbolism from the very beginning?

Well, okay, let's start with saying that the amount of symbols we have today, they didn't always have.

There's kind of a very large library of symbols that have evolved.

That being said, I think they were very well aware of word pictures. I mean it's the way that Christ talked, a lot of the

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