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Space, time, and presence in the icon : seeing the world with the eyes of God /

This book contributes to the re-emerging field of "theology through the arts" by proposing a way of approaching one of the most challenging theological concepts - divine timelessness - through the principle of construction of space in the icon. One of the main objectives of this book is to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Antonova, Clemena, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Colección:Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The role of time in pictorial art
  • The role of time in the visual arts : seeing a picture in the twinkling of an eye
  • The doctrine of the purity of art
  • The problem of pictorial time in the icon : Florensky and remembering things that happened the week after next
  • The problem of time in the pictorial arts Bakhtin's chronotope
  • On reverse perspective : a critical reading
  • Implications of the term reverse perspective : reverse of what?
  • First stage : Florensky
  • Second stage : Zhegin
  • Third stage : Boris Uspensky
  • An alternative view : Karl Doehlemann
  • Registering presence in the icon
  • The cult of images and Eastern Orthodox identity
  • The western position : a critical reappraisal
  • Icon and relic
  • Real presence in the image
  • Classical antique sources
  • Christian sources : Byzantine theology of the image
  • A modern view : the icon as symbol in Florensky's writings
  • Seeing the world with the eyes of God : an alternative explanation of reverse perspective
  • A new definition of reverse perspective as a prerequisite for the present hypothesis
  • The cubist background
  • The theosophical background
  • Classical Greek sources on divine eternity
  • Christian sources on divine eternity
  • Theology through liturgy
  • Theology through the arts
  • The present hypothesis in context
  • Leibniz and the way God sees things
  • Schopenhauer and art as a repetition of eternity
  • Worringer's eternalization of the object.