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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Groneberg, Brigitte, Spieckermann, Hermann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Alemán
Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2007.
Colección:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 376.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 380 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783110204155
3110204150
1282196154
9781282196155
9786612196157
6612196157
ISSN:0934-2575 ;