On Holy Images

Author : Saint John (of Damascus)
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Saint John of Damascus
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547612766

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St John Damascene on Holy Images by Saint John of Damascus Pdf

"St John Damascene on Holy Images" by Saint John of Damascus is a significant theological work that delves into the subject of holy images. Saint John of Damascus offers profound insights into the role of religious images in Christian worship. This book is a valuable resource for those interested in the history and theology of religious art, as it provides a historical and theological perspective on the veneration of holy images.

Author : Saint John of Damascus,Aeterna Press
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Holy Images by Saint John of Damascus,Aeterna Press Pdf

A Treatise on Images will not be out of place in a public, which is confusing the making of images with the making of idols. A great Christian of the eighth century found himself called upon to face an imperial Iconoclast. He would willingly have remained silent, but he would not bury his talent of eloquence. He brought it forth and witnessed to the teaching of the Church in language which present ‘exciting scenes’ in Anglican churches brings home in the most forcible way. Our English image breakers are in the camp of Leo the Isaurian, who in the eighth century waged war against holy images, on the plausible pretext that they withdrew honour from God. The seventh General Council condemned his assault, and it determined the different kinds of worship, using the Greek terms of latreia and douleia. Aeterna Press

Author : Saint John (of Damascus)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Robert S. Nelson,Kristen M. Collins
Publisher : Getty Trust Publications: J. P
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015066756324

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Holy Image, Hallowed Ground by Robert S. Nelson,Kristen M. Collins Pdf

Isolated in the remote Egyptian desert, at the base of Mount Sinai, sits the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Christian world. The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai holds the most important collection of Byzantine icons remaining today. This catalogue, published in conjuction with the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from November 14, 2006, to March 4, 2007, features forty-three of the monastery's extremely rare--and rarely exhibited--icons and six manuscripts still little-known to the world at large. The exhibition and catalogue bring to life the central role of the icon in Byzantine religious practices. Themes include the icon's status as holy object, the ways in which the icon sanctified the place of worship, and the monks' quest for the holy. The Greek Orthodox monastery at Mount Sinai not only functioned as a major pilgrimage site for centuries but was also a cultural crossroads at the center of the shifting sands of ecclesiastical and secular politics. The accompanying essays explore how the monastery's contact with the outside world, through pilgrimage, resulted in aesthetic exchanges between the monastery and Coptic, Crusader, and Islamic art; and between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities in Europe.

Author : Hans Belting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226042154

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Likeness and Presence by Hans Belting Pdf

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. the faithful believed that these images served as relics and were able to work miracles, deliver oracles, and bring victory to the battlefield. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role--from surrogate for the represented image to an original work of art--in European culture. Likeness and Presence looks at the beliefs, superstitions, hopes, and fears that come into play as people handle and respond to sacred images, and presents a compelling interpretation of the place of the image in Western history. -- Back cover

Author : Kurt Weitzmann
Publisher : New York : G. Braziller
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : UOM:39076006019314

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The Icon by Kurt Weitzmann Pdf

Author : Mary Helen Allies,Saint John of Damascus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 374469156X

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St. John Damascene on Holy Images by Mary Helen Allies,Saint John of Damascus Pdf

St. John Damascene on Holy Images - Three Sermons on the Assumption is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Edwyn Bevan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317684947

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Holy Images (Routledge Revivals) by Edwyn Bevan Pdf

First published in 1940, this title presents four of the Gifford Lectures in natural theology given by Edwyn Bevan in 1933: ‘An Inquiry into Idolatry and Image-Worship in Ancient Paganism and Christianity’. Reference is made throughout all four lectures not only to the conventional disputes in Western Christianity, but also to the attitudes of Hebrew, Pagan, Patristic, Muslim and Eastern thinkers towards the role of symbols and symbolism in worship. In this way, a subject of perennial fascination and importance is placed in a broad historical context, and innovative lines of enquiry are developed with clarity and insight. Holy Images offers an intriguing and easily accessible resource to students of theology, comparative religion, religious anthropology and philosophy.

Author : Saint John (of Damascus)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN : PSU:000015524386

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St. John Damascene On Holy Images by Saint John (of Damascus) Pdf

Author : Anne Karahan
Publisher : Peeters
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 9042920807

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Byzantine Holy Images by Anne Karahan Pdf

Patristic thinking is the bedrock of the uniformity of Byzantine culture, legitimization of image use in the Eastern Church, as well as Byzantine aesthetics, Karahan argues. The synergy in Late Byzantine holy images of "meta-images" for God's inexplicability, and elaborated dramatized narration for God's immanence epitomize orthodox tradition in general, and in particular fourth-century Cappadocian modes and models of thought on Christology, trinitarian theology and the Theotokos. The incomprehensible, uncircumscribed invisible Trinity, and the comprehensible God-man born of the Theotokos, circumscribed in flesh but not in divinity is a one-God reality of transcendent ontology and actions in the world of the two-natured image of God, Christ. Explanations in words or in images cannot ignore these orthodox axioms without turning into false images or heretic idols. This book explores why and how the idiosyncratic use of color, form, kinetics, light, and brilliance in Late Byzantine aesthetics concur with the tradition of the Fathers. How narration in image as well as literature is orthodoxos, 'of right belief, orthodox'.

Author : Gabriele Paleotti
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606061169

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Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images by Gabriele Paleotti Pdf

In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Paleotti's 'Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images' argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators.

Author : St. Ephrem the Syrian
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Chiara Franceschini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503593461

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Sacred Images and Normativity by Chiara Franceschini Pdf

Author : Johann Gabriel Leo Meurin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF000324956

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The Use of Holy Images. Summary of the Proceedings of the Bombay Catholic Debating Club; Relating to the Late Discussion on the Above Subject by L. Meurin by Johann Gabriel Leo Meurin Pdf