biblical themes
Scripture's recurring ideas
Biblical themes are recurring ideas, motifs, and narrative patterns drawn from the Bible—redemption, fall from grace, sacrifice, covenant, exodus, apocalypse, temptation, and similar concepts.
The phrase appears in literary criticism, religious education, and cultural analysis: The novel explores biblical themes of sin and forgiveness.
Works need not be explicitly religious to engage biblical themes; they permeate Western literature and art.
- sinViolation of divine law
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
- exileBanishment from homeland
- parablesDidactic allegorical tales
prodigal son · loaves and fishes · typology · prophecy · Last Judgment · grace · salvation · deliverance · creation · Garden of Eden · stewardship · Babylonian exile · messianic hope · good shepherd · mercy · redemption · fall of man · resurrection
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Baroque sacred artaltarpiece, altarpieces, Catholic art, Catholic imagery, baroque art
- Bible studystudy guides, study guide, study notes, scripture reading, scripture study
- Religious StampsChristmas stamps, sacred art, Christian symbols, Christian festivals, Last Supper
- sacred artsicon painting, sacred music, sacred architecture, sacred chant, religious sculpture
- Oratoriooratorio, Messiah, Handel's Messiah, aria, recitative
biblical themessecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
naturalism · positivism · nihilism · humanist values · empiricism
biblical themesNorse mythology
Scandinavian pagan religion
Greek mythology · Egyptian mythology · Roman mythology · Celtic mythology