Divine Images

Author : Ian Alexander McFarland
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451409869

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The Divine Image by Ian Alexander McFarland Pdf

Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians have mainly misappropriated the "image of God" language for 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for our knowledge of God. What, then, does it mean to say that we are made in God's image, or that Christ is the very image or prototype of God? Rather than referring to some germinal divine element in humans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image of God in us tells us something about God and how we know God. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way that offers precious clues about God's transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, and intentions for human life. Too, we "learn from Jesus something new about God." Gathered as Christ's body, the church too images God and sets us on a quest to discern the image of God in Christ's incarnate body. McFarland's careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God's life and our own destiny in Christ.

Author : Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789142884

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Divine Images by Jason Whittaker Pdf

Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as “The Tyger” and “Jerusalem,” and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake’s radical religious and political temperament and that his visionary art was created to express a personal mythology that sought to recreate an entirely new approach to philosophy and art. This book examines both Blake’s visual and poetic work over his long career, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations to Dante and the Book of Job. Divine Images further explores Blake’s immense popular appeal and influence after his death, offering an inspirational look at a pioneering figure.

Author : Pratapaditya Pal,National Gallery of Canada,Bayeux Arts (Firm)
Publisher : Bayeux Arts, Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 189620905X

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Divine Images, Human Visions by Pratapaditya Pal,National Gallery of Canada,Bayeux Arts (Firm) Pdf

Over 150 exquisite color illustrations and text make this account of one of North America's finest South Asian art collections an invaluable guide.

Author : Oleg Tarasov
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781805111610

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How Divine Images Became Art by Oleg Tarasov Pdf

How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel ‘discovery’ of Russian medieval art and of the Italian ‘primitives’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two developments are well-known, they are usually studied in isolation. Tarasov’s study has the great merit of showing the connection between the art world in Russia and the West, and its impact in the cultural history of the continent in the pre-war period. Drawing on a profound familiarity with Russian sources, some of which are little known to Western scholars, and on equally expert knowledge of Western material and scholarship, Oleg Tarasov presents a fresh perspective on early twentieth-century Russian and Western art. The author demonstrates that during the Belle Époque, the interest in medieval Russian icons and Italian ‘primitives’ lead to the recognition of both as distinctive art forms conveying a powerful spiritual message. Formalist art theory and its influence on art collecting played a major role in this recognition of aesthetic and moral value of ‘primitive’ paintings, and was instrumental in reshaping the perception of divine images as artworks. Ultimately, this monograph represents a significant contribution to our understanding of early twentieth-century art; it will be of interest to art scholars, students and anyone interested in the spiritual and aesthetic revival of religious paintings in the Belle Époque.

Author : Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789142877

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Divine Images by Jason Whittaker Pdf

Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as “The Tyger” and “Jerusalem,” and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake’s radical religious and political temperament and that his visionary art was created to express a personal mythology that sought to recreate an entirely new approach to philosophy and art. This book examines both Blake’s visual and poetic work over his long career, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations, to Dante and the Book of Job. Divine Images further explores Blake’s immense popular appeal and influence after his death, offering an inspirational look at a pioneering figure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047441656

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Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome by Anonim Pdf

Based on the visual and textual evidence, this volume concentrates on the artistic, intellectual, religious, and socio-political importance of divine images as media of communication in the polytheistic cosmos of ancient Greece and Rome.

Author : Jill Middlemas
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161537246

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The Divine Image by Jill Middlemas Pdf

Although attempts to understand the growth of aniconism focus on the Pentateuchal legal material, scholars increasingly make reference to the prophetic literature to illuminate the debate. Jill Middlemas provides the first comprehensive analysis of the prophets with attention to rhetorical strategies that reflect anti-iconic thought and promote iconoclasm. After illuminating the idol polemics, which is the rhetoric most often associated with aniconism, she draws out how prophecy also exposes a reticence towards cultic symbols and mental images of Yahweh. At the same time the theme of incomparability as well as the use of metaphor and multiple imaging, paradoxically, reveal additional ways to express aniconic belief or the destabilization of a single divine image. Middlemas' analysis of prophetic aniconism sheds new light on interpretations of the most iconic expression in the Old Testament, the imago dei passages in Genesis, where God is said to create humanity in the divine image.

Author : St. Ephrem the Syrian
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781078730464

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Apologia Against those who decry Holy Images by St. Ephrem the Syrian Pdf

A short hard to find treatise about the iconoclast controversy in Byzantium by one of the champions of catholic orthodoxy.

Author : Saint John (of Damascus)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Iconoclasm
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50351438

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St. John Damascene on Holy Images (pros Tous Diavallontas Tas Hagias Eikonas) ; Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (koimēsis) by Saint John (of Damascus) Pdf

Author : Roy Kinnard,Tim Davis
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : IND:30000029840745

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Divine Images by Roy Kinnard,Tim Davis Pdf

Author : Saint John (of Damascus)
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0881412457

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Three Treatises on the Divine Images by Saint John (of Damascus) Pdf

In AD 726, the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images, throughout the empire, and icons were subject to an imperial ban that was to last, with a brief remission, until AD 843. A defender of icons, St John of Damascus wrote three treatises against "those who attack the holy images." He differentiates between the veneration of icons, which is a matter of expressing honor, and idolatry, which is offering worship to something other than God.

Author : Thomas A. Judge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567689337

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Other Gods and Idols by Thomas A. Judge Pdf

This study questions why the relationship between the worship of other gods and the worship of idols within the Old Testament is difficult to define, acknowledging how various traditions have seen these two issues as synonymous and others have viewed them as separate commandments. Judge argues that there are four factors at play in this diversity. He introduces the first three through an examination of the relationship between the prohibitions listed in the biblical text, and the fourth through a study of the biblical depiction of the war against idols before and after the fall of the Northern Kingdom. Judge argues that texts depicting the era before the fall provide a context in which there are strong grounds to distinguishing the worship of the “wrong gods” and the worship of the right God in the wrong way. However, texts depicting the era after the fall provide a context in which the issues appear to have been fused.

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300105983

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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken Pdf

Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken (the author of The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity) chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. He provides an introduction to early Christian thought on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, and shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.

Author : Brian E. Daley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192521569

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God Visible by Brian E. Daley Pdf

God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered considers the early development and reception of what is today the most widely professed Christian conception of Christ. The development of this doctrine admits of wide variations in expression, understanding, and interpretation that are as striking in authors of the first millennium as they are among modern writers. The seven early ecumenical councils and their dogmatic formulations were crucial facilitators in defining the shape of this study. Focusing primarily on the declaration of the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, Brian E. Daley argues that previous assessments that Christ was one Person in two natures - the Divine of the same substance as the Father and the human of the same substance as us - can sometimes be excessively narrow, even distorting our understanding of Christ's person. Daley urges us to look beyond the Chalcedonian formula alone, and to consider what some major Church Fathers - from Irenaeus to John Damascene - say about the person of Christ.

Author : Tamás Mekis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789693348

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The Hypocephalus: An Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet by Tamás Mekis Pdf

The hypocephalus is an element of Late Period and Ptolemaic funerary equipment—an amuletic disc placed under the head of mummies. Its shape emulates the sun’s disc, and its form is planar (although it is occasionally concave). This volume analyses the written records and iconography of these objects.