Tsakiridou, Cornelia A.
Icons in time, persons in eternity : Orthodox theology and the aesthetics of the Christian image / C.A. Tsakiridou. - Surrey : Ashgate, c2013. - xiii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Preliminaries. The need to redefine the Christian image -- The exemplary work of art -- Enargeia and key concepts -- Theology and art. The Orthodox icon and modernism -- The new iconoclasm -- Theological fallacies -- Jacques Maritain's dialogue with modernism -- Orthodox iconology. Asceticism and iconoclasm -- The mystical lives of beings in St. Maximus the Confessor -- The image in St. John Damascene -- The living image in Byzantine experience -- Theophany and art. Human and divine luminaries -- The theophanic icon -- Theophany and modernism -- Enargeia and transcendence in Zen art.
9781409447672 (hbk) 9781409452737 (ebk)
Icons.
Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christianity and art--Orthodox Eastern Church.
Christian art and symbolism.
Theophanies.
Image (Theology)
Icons in time, persons in eternity : Orthodox theology and the aesthetics of the Christian image / C.A. Tsakiridou. - Surrey : Ashgate, c2013. - xiii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Preliminaries. The need to redefine the Christian image -- The exemplary work of art -- Enargeia and key concepts -- Theology and art. The Orthodox icon and modernism -- The new iconoclasm -- Theological fallacies -- Jacques Maritain's dialogue with modernism -- Orthodox iconology. Asceticism and iconoclasm -- The mystical lives of beings in St. Maximus the Confessor -- The image in St. John Damascene -- The living image in Byzantine experience -- Theophany and art. Human and divine luminaries -- The theophanic icon -- Theophany and modernism -- Enargeia and transcendence in Zen art.
9781409447672 (hbk) 9781409452737 (ebk)
Icons.
Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christianity and art--Orthodox Eastern Church.
Christian art and symbolism.
Theophanies.
Image (Theology)