Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought

ISBN-13: 9780521553711 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 248 str.

Barbara Catherine Raw

Opis

This book is a study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period. It examines the meaning of the representations of the Trinity in tenth- and eleventh-century English manuscripts and their relationship both to Anglo-Saxon theology and to earlier debates about the legitimacy of representations of the divine. The book's unifying theme is that of the image. It will be of interest to art historians, theologians and literary scholars alike.

Recenzje

'The value of this learned, lucid and attractively designed book is as an historical and iconographic overview rather than a theological critique … it is the work of one thoroughly at home in early medieval religious though and expression.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Spis treści

List of plates; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and note on the text; Introduction; 1. 'At this time which is the ending of the world'; 2. 'If anyone wishes to be saved'; 3. God made visible; 4. Signs and images; 5. God in history; 6. Christ, the icon of God; 7. Symbols of the divine; 8. Art, prayer and the vision of God; Bibliography; Index.