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Byzantine Holy Images - Transcendence and Immanence: The Theological Background of the Iconography and Aesthetics of the Chora Church

Byzantine Holy Images - Transcendence and Immanence: The Theological Background of the Iconography and Aesthetics of the Chora Church

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Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Book 176

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 9042920807
ISBN13: 9789042920804
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Aug 25 2010
Pages: 355
Weight: 1.89
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
Patristic thinking is the bedrock of the uniformity of Byzantine culture, legitimization of image use in the Eastern Church, as well as Byzantine aesthetics, Karahan argues. The synergy in Late Byzantine holy images of meta-images for God's inexplicability, and elaborated dramatized narration for God's immanence epitomize orthodox tradition in general, and in particular fourth-century Cappadocian modes and models of thought on Christology, trinitarian theology and the Theotokos. The incomprehensible, uncircumscribed invisible Trinity, and the comprehensible God-man born of the Theotokos, circumscribed in flesh but not in divinity is a one-God reality of transcendent ontology and actions in the world of the two-natured image of God, Christ. Explanations in words or in images cannot ignore these orthodox axioms without turning into false images or heretic idols. This book explores why and how the idiosyncratic use of color, form, kinetics, light, and brilliance in Late Byzantine aesthetics concur with the tradition of the Fathers. How narration in image as well as literature is orthodoxos, 'of right belief, orthodox'.

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