Lux Mundi: The Sculpture of Jesus at Solid Rock Church

Lux Mundi: The Sculpture of Jesus at Solid Rock Church "Lux Mundi" symbolizes love and peace. His design depicts Jesus’s full body with arms lowered in a welcoming gesture. Matthew and St. John.

In 2010, Solid Rock Church commissioned Tom Tsuchiya to design a sculpture of Jesus to replace the original sculpture destroyed by a fire caused by a lightning strike. Tom envisioned the new 51 foot (15.8 m) tall sculpture to differ from the original one designed by Brad Coriell, who depicted Jesus’s bust with his arms raised towards the heavens. For initial inspiration for Lux Mundi’s design, Tom

translated parts of the surviving Greek texts of The Gospels of St. Using two themes drawn from the texts: "agape" (“affectionate love”) and "exousia" (“authority”), Tom posed Jesus stepping forward with his arms in an embracing gesture. To reinforce the themes, the sculpture's shapes are modeled with a warm feeling and Jesus’s commandment from John 15:12: ‘Love one another as I have loved you’ will be featured on the sculpture’s robe. Furthermore, the Gospels are concerned with Jesus’s message and not his physical appearance (in fact, not a word is mentioned about his looks). In keeping with that spirit, Tom avoided creating a likeness of Jesus- the physical features that is generally associated with Jesus, such as the long hair, beard and robe, are merely symbolic on this sculpture. Finally, Tom named the sculpture " Lux Mundi", Latin for" Light of the World". Display Dynamics of Clayton, Ohio was hired by Solid Rock Church in February 2012 to engineer and fabricate the sculpture. At the same time, Global Foam of Dayton, Ohio was hired to create the foam forms.

2012 R. Steven Tsuchiya
10/15/2012

2012 R. Steven Tsuchiya

10/01/2012

Thanks to Solid Rock Church for organizing a beautiful dedication of Lux Mundi.

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09/21/2012

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In June 2010 the Big Jesus Statue at The Solid Rock Church near Cincinnati, Ohio was struck by lightning and burned to the ground!   Now just about two years later. Jesus is Back! A new Jesus st

Thanks to Display Dynamics and the crane operators!
09/20/2012

Thanks to Display Dynamics and the crane operators!

Of arms and a man :)
09/10/2012

Of arms and a man :)

Lux Mundi on Friday the 7th!
09/10/2012

Lux Mundi on Friday the 7th!

10/03/2011

We are saddened by the passing away of Pastor Lawrence Bishop. He and his family are in our thoughts and prayers.

Lux Mundi's steel structure is complete.
09/29/2011

Lux Mundi's steel structure is complete.

08/06/2011

Live web feed from the construction site is now up and running. check out the progress live. ( Login as GUEST with no password)

04/11/2011

Lux Mundi's skeleton is now being designed.

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