Icons in time, persons in eternity
Subtitle: Orthodox theology and the aesthetics of the Christian image
By: C.A. Tsakiridou
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409447672
Subjects: Doctrines; Aesthetics; Icons; Orthodox Eastern Church; Christianity; Christian art and symbolism; Image (Theology); Christianity and art; Theophanies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The need to redefine the Christian image; title: The exemplary work of art; title: Enargeia and key concepts; title: Theology and art; title: The orthodox icon and modernism; title: The new iconoclasm; title: Theological fallacies; title: Jacques Maritain's dialogue with modernism; title: Orthodox iconology; title: Asceticism and iconoclasm; title: The mystical lives of beings in St. Maximus the Confessor; title: The icon in St. John Damascene; title: The living image in Byzantine experience; title: Theophany and art; title: Human and divine luminaries; title: The theophanic icon; title: Theophany and modernism; title: Enargeia and transcendence in Zen art.