Sacred Distance

Author : Rosemary Muir Wright
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719055458

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Sacred Distance by Rosemary Muir Wright Pdf

"This book ... is concerned to open up some of the conditioning factors which reveal the concerns of the ecclesiastical authorities for the formal representation of Marian teaching. The following chapters aim to show how the Marian altarpiece was responsive both to developments in dogma and to major stylistic changes in the course of the period 1320-1630. These changes were grounded in the visual strategies by which the spatial and lighting systems of the painting reflected those of the viewer, so as to impart to the painted image the convition of reality derived from sensory experience. The book makes a distinction between the theological and the cult image in order to isolate those aspects of Marian devotion which the Church embraced as doctrinally important."--Preface, p. xii.

Author : Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642290905

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The Day Is Now Far Spent by Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat Pdf

Robert Cardinal Sarah calls The Day Is Now Far Spent his most important book. He analyzes the spiritual, moral, and political collapse of the Western world and concludes that "the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril." A cultural identity crisis, he writes, is at the root of the problems facing Western societies. "The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations." While making clear the gravity of the present situation, the cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God, a world without hope. He calls for a renewal of devotion to Christ through prayer and the practice of virtue.

Author : Keir Magalie Strickland
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916336

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A Time of Change: Questioning the “Collapse” of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka by Keir Magalie Strickland Pdf

This book reassesses the apparent collapse of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record, rather than focusing solely upon textual sources which have been overly relied upon in previous studies.

Author : Terryl L. Givens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199394241

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Wrestling the Angel by Terryl L. Givens Pdf

In this first volume of his magisterial study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, Terryl L. Givens offers a sweeping account of Mormon belief from its founding to the present day. Situating the relatively new movement in the context of the Christian tradition, he reveals that Mormonism continues to change and grow. Givens shows that despite Mormonism's origins in a biblical culture strongly influenced by nineteenth-century Restorationist thought, which advocated a return to the Christianity of the early Church, the new movement diverges radically from the Christianity of the creeds. Mormonism proposes its own cosmology and metaphysics, in which human identity is rooted in a premortal world as eternal as God. Mormons view mortal life as an enlightening ascent rather than a catastrophic fall, and reject traditional Christian concepts of human depravity and destiny. Popular fascination with Mormonism's social innovations, such as polygamy and communalism, and its supernatural and esoteric elements-angels, gold plates, seer stones, a New World Garden of Eden, and sacred undergarments-have long overshadowed the fact that it is the most enduring and even thriving product of the nineteenth century's religious upheavals and innovations. Wrestling the Angel traces the essential contours of Mormon thought from the time of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young to the contemporary LDS church, illuminating both the seminal influence of the founding generation of Mormon thinkers and the significant developments in the church over almost 200 years. The most comprehensive account of the development of Mormon thought ever written, Wrestling the Angel will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Mormon faith.

Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780741789

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Renaissance Art by Tom Nichols Pdf

The fifteenth century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European artistic culture. But what does the familiar phrase Renaissance Art actually refer to? Through engaging discussion of timeless works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, and supported by illustrations including colour plates, Tom Nichols offers a masterpiece of his own as he explores the truly original and diverse character of the art of the Renaissance.

Author : Melancthon Williams Jacobus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOMDLP:aga0314:0001.001

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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Book of Genesis ... by Melancthon Williams Jacobus Pdf

Author : Susie Linfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226482521

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The Cruel Radiance by Susie Linfield Pdf

In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images—and learning to see the people in them—is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns—and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China’s Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist acts—Linfield explores the complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. In the book’s concluding section, she examines the indispensable work of Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and Gilles Peress and asks how photography should respond to the increasingly nihilistic trajectory of modern warfare.A bracing and unsettling book, The Cruel Radiance convincingly demonstrates that if we hope to alleviate political violence, we must first truly understand it—and to do that, we must begin to look.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435030476212

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Passages from the French and Italian note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067253263

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The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Passages from the French and Italian note-books. [c1883 by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Parsons Lathrop,Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858009684162

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The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop,Julian Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435026403709

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Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076004583

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The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226328003

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Sculpture by Johann Gottfried Herder Pdf

"The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching."—Johann Gottfried Herder Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's Plastik (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources—from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible—to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture. Standing on the fault line between classicism and romanticism, Herder draws most of his examples from classical sculpture, while nevertheless insisting on the historicity of art and of the senses themselves. Through a detailed analysis of the differences between painting and sculpture, he develops a powerful critique of the dominance of vision both in the appreciation of art and in our everyday apprehension of the world around us. One of the key articulations of the aesthetics of Sturm und Drang, Sculpture is also important as an anticipation of subsequent developments in art theory. Jason Gaiger's translation of Sculpture includes an extensive introduction to Herder's thought, explanatory notes, and illustrations of all the sculptures discussed in the text.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000681154

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The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006084400

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French and Italian note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf