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Author Carnes, Natalie, author

Title Image and presence : a Christological reflection on iconoclasm and iconophilia / Natalie Carnes
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages)
Series Encountering traditions
Encountering traditions.
Contents Introduction : our life with images -- Born of the Virgin Mary : arriving presence -- Came down from heaven and was made human : abiding presence -- Crucified, died, and was buried : riven and riving presence -- Rose again on the third day : abiding presence -- Will come again in glory : arriving presence -- Conclusion : the image of the invisible God
Summary Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understanding of images as lifeless objects, this book offers a theological meditation on the ways images convey presence into our world. Just as Christ negates himself in order to manifest the invisible God, images, Natalie Carnes contends, negate themselves to give more than they literally or materially are. Her Christological reflections bring iconoclasm and iconophilia into productive relation, suggesting that they need not oppose one another.0Investigating such images as the biblical golden calf and paintings of the Virgin Mary, Carnes explores how to distinguish between iconoclasms that maintain fidelity to their theological intentions and those that lead to visual temptation. Offering ecumenical reflections on issues that have long divided Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions, 'Image and Presence' provokes a fundamental reconsideration of images and of the global image crises of our time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jesus Christ -- Iconography
Jesus Christ -- Presence
SUBJECT Jesus Christ fast
Subject Image (Theology)
Iconoclasm.
Idols and images -- Worship.
Christian art and symbolism.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Christian art and symbolism
Iconoclasm
Idols and images -- Worship
Image (Theology)
Presence of Jesus Christ
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503604230
1503604233