Art, Modernity and Faith: Restoring the Image - Softcover

Pattison, George

 
9780334027195: Art, Modernity and Faith: Restoring the Image

Synopsis

Leads the reader through a more or less historical narrative of the relationship between Christianity and the visual arts beginning with the deep-rooted fear of images in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Shows how significant for religion art can be.

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About the Author

George Pattison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral. His publications include God and Being; An Enquiry (2011); Crucifixions and Resurrections of the Image (2009) and Kierkegaard, Religion and the Nineteenth Century Crisis of Culture (Cambridge, 2002). He is editor and translator of Kierkegaard's Spiritual Writings (2010).

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