Image Incarnation And Christian Expansivism

Author : Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004300511
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image and Incarnation written by Walter Melion and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore various inflections of the relation between image-making and incarnation doctrine. They illumine ways this fundamental mystery was construed as representable, and how it was seen to license the representation of other mysteries of faith.

Author : Aidan Nichols
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498297471
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of God Incarnate written by Aidan Nichols and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of God Incarnate proposes that visual art is a good way to think of how the incarnation--the central truth-claim of Christianity--can be said to reveal the divine. In the book of Genesis, the human being, fresh from the hands of the Creator, is the image of God in the temple of the world. In an environment of distorted images the prophets sought to make visible by symbolic gestures the divine attitude toward Israel, as well as looking forward to a new divine intervention to redeem history and transfigure human lives. For the New Testament faith, this transforming intervention has come about through the restoration of the divine image in man. Jesus Christ is the true and living icon of the Father and the model from whose radiance human beings generally can be re-fashioned. Despite the anti-iconic legislation of the Hebrew Bible, it was inevitable, therefore, that under the New Covenant a visual art would make its appearance, since God had now made himself visible in his humanized Son. During the iconoclast crisis which shook the Eastern Roman Empire, it was the achievement of the later Greek fathers to spell out this claim doctrinally. Modern aesthetics can throw further light, especially by way of phenomenology and semiotics, on how an artwork can be a communicator of meaning and truth. Finally, there is the question of how human beings are to make their own this revelation of God in the visual realm. In the Latin tradition, especially among the monastic teachers of the twelfth century, the biblical theme of man made in the divine image and likeness was used to speak of how people can be changed by the fresh resources that revelation provides. Through growth in charity they themselves can become saints, "images" of God.

Author : Mark S. McLeod-Harrison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532606427
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image, Incarnation, and Christian Expansivism written by Mark S. McLeod-Harrison and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am the way, the truth, and the life, says Jesus. Yet the kingdom of heaven consists of all tribes, races, and peoples. How do people of tribes who've never heard the word of Christ enter the kingdom of God? A strictly exclusivist account of the gospel seems to keep many people out of the kingdom of heaven. An inclusivist approach is more consonant with Scripture and the love of God. Yet standard models of inclusivism are problematic. In this book McLeod-Harrison--a Christian philosopher--considers what's wrong with both narrow exclusivist and narrow inclusivist accounts of the gospel and proposes a broad inclusivism called "expansivism." An expansive account of the gospel helps us understand the uniqueness and the openness of the gospel together. Narrow exclusivism can lead to existential crises. Narrow inclusivism appears to make not preaching the gospel better for those who've never heard it. Expansivism makes human access to the gospel unique to the individual person and enables Christian theologians to provide lots of different, potentially conflicting and yet true accounts of the theological underpinnings of the salvation provided by Christ.

Author : Ian Alexander McFarland
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451409864
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Image written by Ian Alexander McFarland and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : J. Virgil Dunbar
Publisher : Gunderson Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781886096004
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Christ Can't Be Pictured written by J. Virgil Dunbar and published by Gunderson Publications. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Natalie Carnes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503604233
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image and Presence written by Natalie Carnes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present—from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understanding of images as lifeless objects, this book offers a theological meditation on the ways images convey presence into our world. Just as Christ negates himself in order to manifest the invisible God, images, Natalie Carnes contends, negate themselves to give more than they literally or materially are. Her Christological reflections bring iconoclasm and iconophilia into productive relation, suggesting that they need not oppose one another. Investigating such images as the biblical golden calf and paintings of the Virgin Mary, Carnes explores how to distinguish between iconoclasms that maintain fidelity to their theological intentions and those that lead to visual temptation. Offering ecumenical reflections on issues that have long divided Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions, Image and Presence provokes a fundamental reconsideration of images and of the global image crises of our time.

Author : Margaret R. Miles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725217538
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image as Insight written by Margaret R. Miles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miles's pathbreaking work shows how art and architecture have shaped religious understanding throughout the history of Christianity.

Author : Beth Felker Jones
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083089960X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of God in an Image Driven Age written by Beth Felker Jones and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are created in the image of God, yet by choosing to rebel against God we become unfaithful bearers of his image. But Jesus, who is the image of God, restores the divine image in us. At the intersection of theology and culture, these essays offer a unified vision of what it means to be truly human and created in the divine image in the world today.

Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520345428
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Idols to Icons written by Robin M. Jensen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Idols to Icons tells the fascinating history of the dramatic shift in Christian attitudes toward sacred images from the third through the early seventh century. From attacks on the cult images of polytheism to the emergence of Christian narrative iconography to the appearance of portrait type representations of holy figures, this book examines the primary theological critiques as well as defenses of holy images in light of the surviving material evidence for early Christian visual art. Against the assumption that fourth- and fifth-century Christians simply forgot or ignored their predecessors' censure and reverted to more alluring pagan practices, Robin M. Jensen contends that each stage of this profound change was uniquely Christian. Through a careful consideration of the cult of saints' remains, devotional portraits, and pilgrimage to sacred sites, Jensen shows how the Christian devotion to holy images came to be rooted in their evolving conviction that the divinity was accessible in and through visible objects. Even the briefest glance at a museum's holdings or an introductory textbook demonstrates how profoundly influential this belief would be on the course of Western art for the next fifteen hundred years"--

Author : Walter J. Burghardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of God in Man written by Walter J. Burghardt and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: