the Son
noun
: the second person of the Trinity in the Christian religion : Jesus Christ
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
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The horror pic, now in post-production, is directed by Lotfy Nathan and tells the childhood story of Jesus Christ, with Cage playing The Carpenter, Noah Jupe plays the Son and his Honey Boy co-star FKA Twigs is the Mother.
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
Its mission statement is explicitly religious, which is to say teaching students about the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is every bit as important to its educators as imbuing them with knowledge and skills in science, history, math and English.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
Belief in the Triune God and in Christ, the Son, unites us (I John 5:1), along with so many other core truths of the Christian faith.
—Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Robert Trebor, who portrayed the serial killer known as the Son of Sam in a CBS telefilm and the scheming merchant Salmoneus on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its sister series, Xena: Warrior Princess, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
The Satanic Grotto's rally outside drew hundreds of Christian counter-protesters because of the Grotto's satanic imagery, and its indoor ceremony included denouncing Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
In his breakout year of 1985, Trebor appeared as a reporter in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, as a copy boy in Bob Clark’s Turk 182 and as the Son of Sam (real name: David Berkowitz) in the TV movie Out of the Darkness.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
To help set the film apart from other Holocaust dramas, Geller took the Son of Saul and Zone of Interest approach by leaving much of the concentration camp atrocities to the imagination of the viewer.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Another theologian noted that, if true, this would make the Son of God functionally a eunuch.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
Its mission statement is explicitly religious, which is to say teaching students about the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is every bit as important to its educators as imbuing them with knowledge and skills in science, history, math and English.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 May 2025
Belief in the Triune God and in Christ, the Son, unites us (I John 5:1), along with so many other core truths of the Christian faith.
—Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Robert Trebor, who portrayed the serial killer known as the Son of Sam in a CBS telefilm and the scheming merchant Salmoneus on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its sister series, Xena: Warrior Princess, has died.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
The Satanic Grotto's rally outside drew hundreds of Christian counter-protesters because of the Grotto's satanic imagery, and its indoor ceremony included denouncing Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God.
—CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
In his breakout year of 1985, Trebor appeared as a reporter in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, as a copy boy in Bob Clark’s Turk 182 and as the Son of Sam (real name: David Berkowitz) in the TV movie Out of the Darkness.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
To help set the film apart from other Holocaust dramas, Geller took the Son of Saul and Zone of Interest approach by leaving much of the concentration camp atrocities to the imagination of the viewer.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Another theologian noted that, if true, this would make the Son of God functionally a eunuch.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
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“The Son.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Son. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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