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Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion

Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion

Wandel, Lee Palmer

Hardcover

Art HistoryCatechismsGeneral World History

ISBN10: 900430519X
ISBN13: 9789004305199
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 8 2015
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion makes two broad arguments. First, the sixteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation in Christians', Catholic and Evangelical, conceptualization of the nature of knowledge of Christianity and the media through which that knowledge was articulated and communicated. Christians had shared a sense that knowledge might come through visions, images, liturgy; catechisms taught that knowledge of 'Christianity' began with texts printed on a page. Second, codicil catechisms sought not simply to dissolve the material distinction between codex and person, but to teach catechumens to see specific words together as texts. The pages of catechisms were visual--they confound precisely that constructed modern bipolarity, word/image, or, conversely, that modern bipolarity obscures what sixteenth-century catechisms sought to do.

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