Since the nineteenth century, Bernhard Plockhorst’s Jesus as the Good Shepherd has enjoyed great popularity and is reproduced in a wide variety of media, appearing in American homes, schools, and churches and even Hollywood sets. Jesus as a Good Shepherd is traced to the early Christian period through the fourth century when he disappears from the iconographic lexicon. He regains popularity during the Protestant Reformation as a didactic tool. Resurging once again in the nineteenth and twentieth century, this Good Shepherd is markedly different from his historical iterations. Tracking visual comparanda and textual sources, the Plockhorst Good Shepherd emerges as a figure that engenders strong emotions of love, protection, and community only possible in a post-agricultural society.

自19世纪以来，伯恩哈德·普克霍斯特（Bernhard Plockhorst）的《耶稣是好牧人》一书广受欢迎，并在各种媒体上复制，并出现在美国的家庭，学校，教堂甚至好莱坞大片中。耶稣作为好牧人可以追溯到公元四世纪早期基督教时代，当时他从肖像辞典中消失了。在新教改革期间，他作为教学工具重新获得了欢迎。这位好牧人在19世纪和20世纪再次复兴，与他的历史经历截然不同。追踪视觉比较和文本来源，Plockhorst Good Shepherd的出现引发了强烈的爱，保护和社区情感，只有在后农业社会中才有可能。