[PDF] The Foundations Of Christian Art eBook

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781933316123

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Titus Burckhardt was a renowned expert on the art of traditional worlds. This book takes the reader through the history of Christian art, focusing especially upon architecture, iconography, and illumination.

Author : R. Kevin Seasoltz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2005-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826417015

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There have been many histories of Christian art and architecturebut none written be a theologian such as Kevin Seasoltz. Following a chapter on culture as the context for theology, liturgy, and art, Seasoltz surveys developments from the early church up through the conventional artistic styles and periods. Comprehensive, illuminating, ecumenical.

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1933316721

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This fascinating edited collection of art historian Titus Burckhardt's most important writings on Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist art is lavishly illustrated with 140 superb examples of Oriental art, architecture, statuary, and painting.

Author : James Montgomery Boice
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830874097

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In one systematic volume, James Montgomery Boice provides a readable overview of Christian theology. With scholarly rigor and a pastor's heart, Boice carefully opens the topics of the nature of God, the person and work of Christ, the work of the Holy Spirit in justification and sanctification, and ecclesiology and eschatology. This updated edition includes a foreword by Philip Ryken and a section-by-section study guide.

Author : Helen De Borchgrave
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781451409543

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Depicts the methods used by Christian artists, including mosaic, paint, and stone, over a 2,000-year period to portray their search for spirituality.

Author : Ivan Ilyin
Publisher : Waystone Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1732087385

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There was a time when society was inspired by Christian principles. Art, government, society emulated, as much as possible, the search for perfection dictated by the call to virtue. Ultimately, the twentieth century's many disasters and Christendom's failure to stop revolution and world war have discredited Christianity itself in the eyes of many. Nevertheless, I am convinced that only Christianity can revitalize a culture that has lost most of its connection with beauty and that glorifies banality, variety, and diversity as ends in themselves. However, this would not be a retread of historical Christendom, but a new vision, predicated on the new realities of an increasingly Neo-pagan and Transhumanist West. According to Ivan Ilyin, "The Gospel teaches not flight from the world, but the Christianization of the world. Thus, the sciences, the arts, politics, and the social order can all be those spiritual hands with which the Christian takes the world. And the calling of a Christian is not to chop off those hands, but to imbue their work and toil with the living spirit of Christ. Christianity has a great calling, which many do not ever realize. This purpose can be defined as the creation of a Christian culture." This book is Ivan Ilyin's spiritual and practical handbook at creating Christian culture in an increasingly post-Christian world. Translated by Nicholas Kotar

Author : Herbert L. Kessler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812208366

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Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world. The thirteen essays in Judaism and Christian Art reveal that Christian art has always defined itself through the figures of Judaism that it produces. From its beginnings, Christianity confronted a host of questions about visual representation. Should Christians make art, or does attention to the beautiful works of human hands constitute a misplaced emphasis on the things of this world or, worse, a form of idolatry ("Thou shalt make no graven image")? And if art is allowed, upon what styles, motifs, and symbols should it draw? Christian artists, theologians, and philosophers answered these questions and many others by thinking about and representing the relationship of Christianity to Judaism. This volume is the first dedicated to the long history, from the catacombs to colonialism but with special emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, of the ways in which Christian art deployed cohorts of "Jews"—more figurative than real—in order to conquer, defend, and explore its own territory.

Author : R. Kevin Seasoltz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826416971

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There have been many histories of Christian art and architecture but none written be a theologian such as Kevin Seasoltz. Following a chapter on culture as the context for theology, liturgy, and art, Seasoltz surveys developments from the early church up through the conventional artistic styles and periods. Comprehensive, illuminating, ecumenical.