عنوان

Byzantine Visual Culture:

شماره

LA122839

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Byzantine Visual Culture:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Conditions of "Right" Belief and Some Platonic Outlooks

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anne Karahan

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Monumental picture programs of Byzantine churches exist within a spatial and liturgical setting of rituals that depend on circumstances that create a distinction from profane to sacred. The core theme is the epic narrative of the holy drama of the incarnated son, i.e., the image of God (eikon tou theou), acknowledged as indivisibly as much human as divine. In a Byzantine religious sense, images of Christ prove the incarnation, yet human salvation depends on faith in the incarnation but also in the transcendent unknowable God. From the perspective of visual culture, the dilemma is that divine nature is, in a religious sense, transcendent and unknowable, beyond words and categorizations, unintelligible, as opposed to human nature, which is intelligible. This article concerns the strategy of Byzantine visual culture to weave together expressible and inexpressible in order to acknowledge "right belief," without trespassing the theology and mode of thought of the church fathers on the triune mystery of the Christian God and the incarnation. In a Byzantine religious sense, circumscribed by time and space, the human condition is inconsistent with cognition of what God is. Nonetheless, salvation depends on faith in that God is, a "fact" acknowledged through holy images. Particular theoretical and methodological focus will be on how the three fourth-century Cappadocian fathers and Dionysius the Areopagite, but also Maximus the Confessor discuss God's unintelligibility but also intelligibility, with some comparative Platonic outlooks. Monumental picture programs of Byzantine churches exist within a spatial and liturgical setting of rituals that depend on circumstances that create a distinction from profane to sacred. The core theme is the epic narrative of the holy drama of the incarnated son, i.e., the image of God (eikon tou theou), acknowledged as indivisibly as much human as divine. In a Byzantine religious sense, images of Christ prove the incarnation, yet human salvation depends on faith in the incarnation but also in the transcendent unknowable God. From the perspective of visual culture, the dilemma is that divine nature is, in a religious sense, transcendent and unknowable, beyond words and categorizations, unintelligible, as opposed to human nature, which is intelligible. This article concerns the strategy of Byzantine visual culture to weave together expressible and inexpressible in order to acknowledge "right belief," without trespassing the theology and mode of thought of the church fathers on the triune mystery of the Christian God and the incarnation. In a Byzantine religious sense, circumscribed by time and space, the human condition is inconsistent with cognition of what God is. Nonetheless, salvation depends on faith in that God is, a "fact" acknowledged through holy images. Particular theoretical and methodological focus will be on how the three fourth-century Cappadocian fathers and Dionysius the Areopagite, but also Maximus the Confessor discuss God's unintelligibility but also intelligibility, with some comparative Platonic outlooks.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

210-244

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

63/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

apophatic theology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Byzantine aesthetics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Byzantine and medieval art

اصطلاح موضوعی

Byzantine churches, Cappadocia

اصطلاح موضوعی

Byzantine Istanbul

اصطلاح موضوعی

Byzantine Ravenna

اصطلاح موضوعی

Cappadocian fathers

اصطلاح موضوعی

Greek patristics and ancient philosophy

اصطلاح موضوعی

meta-images

اصطلاح موضوعی

Orthodox theology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Saint Catherine's Monastery church, Sinai

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Anne Karahan

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341421

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y