Amazon have a finally found a category so small that my book ranks as one of the best sellers in it.
Check out 'books -> fiction -> religious and inspirational -> classics'. Not far down from Screwtape Letters and Pilgrim's Progress ... (actually at No. 21) is Paradise. Look it up quick before it disappears...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Artists and theologians: What the Byzantines knew
The Eastern church famously enjoyed a couple of centuries of furious split as they tried to work out the place of images in worship. The argument was won in favour of the icons. The result of all the debate was that 'Greek theologians... raised the status of the work of art to that of theology and the status of the artist to that of the theologian.'
(C Barber Figure and Likeness, on the limits of representation in Byzantine iconoclasm, quoted in Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, p453)
Old ideas come back in new cultures, in new forms. Wonder if this will?
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