Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Holy Trinity Church, Hazlemere

A lovely blend here of old style black ink on day-glo yellow combined with more a modern design style to simple and striking effect.  The visuals illustrate the text nicely, but much more importantly the poster contains one of the all time great church puns.

For those of us of a certain age and geekiness the whole sun/Son pun will bring back memories of that episode in the original Star Trek series, where they beam down to a planet where the Roman Empire is still in existence and where Kirk, after some gladiatorial gadding about, discovers that the persecuted people that he took to be sun worshippers are actually worshipping the Son of God...  Obviously their planet's version of the Roman Empire missed out the whole Constantine/Milvian Bridge episode, which may well have been where ours went wrong.  Certainly Gibbon would agree.

The poster could also be open to some interesting Manichaean interpretations and those perennial pop-culture heretics of choice, the Cathars, would probably have approved.


So, in short, cracking poster, top class pun and some interesting theology to ponder.  What's not to like?

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