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Author: Pratapaditya Pal
Publisher: Bayeux Arts, Incorporated
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781896209050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over 150 exquisite color illustrations and text make this account of one of North America's finest South Asian art collections an invaluable guide.
Author: Martin Kemp
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2021-03
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781848224674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante's supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante's vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante's ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante's acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante's earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists' portrayal of unseeable brightness.
Author: St. Hildegard of Bingen
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 0813231299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works (Liber Divinorum Operum) is the culmination of the Visionary’s Doctor’s theological project, offered here for the first time in a complete and scholarly English translation. The first part explores the intricate physical and spiritual relationships between the cosmos and the human person, with the famous image of the universal Man standing astride the cosmic spheres. The second part examines the rewards for virtue and the punishments for vice, mapped onto a geography of purgatory, hellmouth, and the road to the heavenly city. At the end of each Hildegard writes extensive commentaries on the Prologue to John’s Gospel (Part 1) and the first chapter of Genesis (Part 2)—the only premodern woman to have done so. Finally, the third part tells the history of salvation, imagined as the City of God standing next to the mountain of God’s foreknowledge, with Divine Love reigning over all.
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2015-08-31
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1848258003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9047441656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on the visual and textual evidence, this volume concentrates on the artistic, intellectual, religious, and socio-political importance of divine images as media of communication in the polytheistic cosmos of ancient Greece and Rome.
Author: Margaret Bottrall
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author argues that no English poet can compare with Blake as an interpreter of the religion of Jesus.
Author: Jonathan Grant
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1441227164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching consequences for sexuality today. The church has struggled to address this new moral ecology because it has focused on clarity of belief rather than quality of formation. The real challenge for spiritual formation lies in addressing the underlying moral intuitions we carry subconsciously, which are shaped by the convictions of our age. In this book, a fresh new voice offers a persuasive Christian vision of sex and relationships, calling young adults to faithful discipleship in a hypersexualized world. Drawing from his pastoral experience with young people and from cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, Jonathan Grant helps Christian leaders understand the cultural forces that make the church's teaching on sex and relationships ineffective in the lives of today's young adults. He also sets forth pastoral strategies for addressing the underlying fault lines in modern sexuality.
Author: Ian Alexander McFarland
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781451409864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theologian Ian McFarland claims that Christians have mainly misappropriated the "image of God" language for 2000 years and thereby missed a rich resource for our knowledge of God. What, then, does it mean to say that we are made in God's image, or that Christ is the very image or prototype of God? Rather than referring to some germinal divine element in humans, such as reason, McFarland claims that the image of God in us tells us something about God and how we know God. It tells us that God, though not identical with us, communicates Godself to us in creative love, in a way that offers precious clues about God's transcendence, immanence, triune life, self-disclosure, incarnation, and intentions for human life. Too, we "learn from Jesus something new about God." Gathered as Christ's body, the church too images God and sets us on a quest to discern the image of God in Christ's incarnate body. McFarland's careful and exacting work builds from this kernel a powerful Christian vision of God's life and our own destiny in Christ.
Author: Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1611684587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social science, and psychology, as well as personal interviews, the authors show how traditional (mainly Orthodox) day school education continues to re-inscribe gender inequities and socialize students into unhealthy gender identities and relationships. They address pedagogy, school practices, curricula, and textbooks, as along with single-sex versus coed schooling, dress codes, sex education, Jewish rituals, and gender hierarchies in educational leadership. Drawing a stark picture of the many ways both girls and boys are molded into gender identities, the authors offer concrete resources and suggestions for transforming educational practice.
Author: Pratapaditya Pal
Publisher: Bayeux Arts Incorporated
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781897411872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An engaging and authouritative biography of one a remarkable man who has left a lasting impression on art in the world
