In the Beginning is the Icon

A Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture

Sigurd Bergmann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-66105-9 (ISBN)

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Contributes to raising awareness about the intrinsic value of images and image perception among those who wish to reflect over God and over pictorial expressions of different experiences from encounters with divinity in earthly and historical situations. This work offers important perspectives for a cross-cultural art theology.

Icons provide depictions of God or encounters with the divine that enable reflection and prayer. 'In the Beginning is the Icon' explores the value of these images for a theology of liberation. Iconology, art theory, philosophical aesthetics, art history and anthropology are integrated with rigorous theological reflection to argue that the creation and observation of pictures can have a liberating effect on humanity. In presenting art from across the world, 'In the Beginning is the Icon' reflects the ethnocentricity of both art and religious studies and offers a new cross-cultural approach to the theology of art.

Sigurd Bergmann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

PrefaceI. What is an image?II. What is art?III. Theological views of artIV. World artV. Aesthetics of liberation ----- towards a contextual theology of artBibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	23.01.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-66105-8 / 1138661058
ISBN-13	978-1-138-66105-9 / 9781138661059
Zustand	Neuware