Renaissance Summaries: Some Hollywood Cowboy Movies

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Renaissance Summaries: Three Topics
Topic One Some Hollywood cowboy movies draw symbolism from Christian themes. For example, The Magnificent Seven is related to the Seven Virtues. 3:10 to Yuma and High Noon also have Christian symbolism in them. A piece of artwork called Four Horsemen, much like a cowboy movie, has Christian roots, specifically in the New Testament. The artwork and the other pieces in the series depicted an apocalypse in the 16th century. After the world did not end in 1511, the artworks were republished.

Topic Two The text of the New Testament, in Revelation, depict four distinct horsemen. Each horseman has a different specialty as represented by their color. The four colors are white, red, black, and pale and each color

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