Lamb of God modern Roman Catholic Christology, Karl Rahner has continued to elaborate on the analogy that the blood of the Lamb of God, and the water flowing from the side of Christ on Calvary, had a cleansing nature, similar to baptismal water. In this analogy, the blood of the Lamb washed away the sins of humanity in a new baptism, redeeming it from the fall of Adam. In the Mass of the Roman Rite and also in the Eucharist of the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church, and the Western Rite of the Orthodox Church the "Agnus Dei" is the invocation to the
Painting of a Nestorian Christian figure scattered with small flowers which may serve to enhance the sanctity, and therefore the devotion (bhakti). According to the German professor and Swiss scholar Christoph Baumer, “the figure represents Jesus Christ or a saint”. , a Japanese historian and professor of Kyoto University, argues that “the unearthed in Tunhwang must be an image of Christ”. P. Y. Saeki, the Japanese scholar of religion, also considers the painting to be an icon of Jesus. Painting of a Nestorian Christian figure The Painting of a Nestorian Christian figure or Fragment of a Christian figure, Nestorian painting of Jesus Christ, is a late