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Divine images create their own world of theological reflection and religious practice. Pictorial representations have to reduce complexity, yet at the same time they create their own complexity. The present volume examines this phenomenon with papers on fundamental issues and presentations of materi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Alemán Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
2007.
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Colección: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ;
376. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Divine images create their own world of theological reflection and religious practice. Pictorial representations have to reduce complexity, yet at the same time they create their own complexity. The present volume examines this phenomenon with papers on fundamental issues and presentations of material from the Ancient Orient, Greece and the Hellenic world. Papers on the contact between Christianity and Islam in the matter of the veneration of images make clear what compensation strategies are developed when pictorial representations are subject to theological censure. The volume contains eight. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 380 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9783110204155 3110204150 1282196154 9781282196155 9786612196157 6612196157 |
ISSN: | 0934-2575 ; |