Divine Images

by Jason Whittaker
Divine Images
Author: Jason Whittaker
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1789142873
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Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as “The Tyger” and “Jerusalem,” and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake’s radical religious and political temperament and that his visionary art was created to express a personal mythology that sought to recreate an entirely new approach to philosophy and art. This book examines both Blake’s visual and poetic work over his long career, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations, to Dante and the Book of Job. Divine Images further explores Blake’s immense popular appeal and influence after his death, offering an inspirational look at a pioneering figure.

Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047441656
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The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even without a theoretical or theological superstructure. For the illiterates, images were together with oral traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach the idea of the divine; for the intellectuals, images of the gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine images as powerful visual media of religious and intellectual communication.

Images of God for Young Children

by Marie-Helene Delval
Images of God for Young Children
Author: Marie-Helene Delval
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780802853912
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The Bible describes God in many different ways: God is light; God is joy; God is wisdom. God is the beauty that fills the earth and the rock we stand on, the promises we live by and the fire that purifies us. This volume offers a collection of these images, presented in simple language that young readers can easily understand. This book's bright artwork and lyrical text, written by the bestselling author of Psalms for Young Children, explores how, even though we cannot see or touch God, we can still discover him in our world.

Three Treatises on the Divine Images

by Saint John (of Damascus)
Three Treatises on the Divine Images
Author: Saint John (of Damascus)
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780881412451
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In AD 726, the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images, throughout the empire, and icons were subject to an imperial ban that was to last, with a brief remission, until AD 843. A defender of icons, St John of Damascus wrote three treatises against "those who attack the holy images." He differentiates between the veneration of icons, which is a matter of expressing honor, and idolatry, which is offering worship to something other than God.

Darśan, Seeing the Divine Image in India

by Diana L. Eck
Darśan, Seeing the Divine Image in India
Author: Diana L. Eck
Publisher: Anima Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1981
Genre: Religion
ISBN:
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"Drawing from topics of religion in India such as bhakti, puja rituals, and spirit posessions, these essays offer a close study of the physical representations of god as the central feature of Hinduism. A valuable tool for students of anthroplogy and the philosophy and history of religion." --

Cult Image and Divine Representation in the Ancient Near East

by Neal H. Walls
Cult Image and Divine Representation in the Ancient Near East
Author: Neal H. Walls
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:
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While biblical prophets ridiculed the notion of humans fashioning an idol that they would then worship, ancient Near Eastern theologians developed a sophisticated religious system in which divine beings could be physically manifest within the material of a cultic image without being limited by that embodiment. The four essays in this compact volume examine the intriguing subject of cultic images and divine iconography in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia and Syria-Palestine. This interesting and eclectic group of essays explores the textual and artifactual evidence for the creation and veneration of divine images in the ancient Near East. The recent resurgence of scholarly interest in the study of divine representation in ancient Israel and the Near East makes this comprehensive reexamination especially timely.

Images of the Divine

by Ambrosios Giakalis
Images of the Divine
Author: Ambrosios Giakalis
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2021-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004474455
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This analysis of the arguments for and against icons presented at the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787 provides a fresh insight from an Eastern Orthodox point of view into the role of icons as channels communicative of divine life.