Interpreting the Icon. Essays on the Theology of the Icon
From the back cover description, we read:
Through the topics: “image and prayer,” “the term ecclesiastical painting,” “the significance and content of the image,” “the theology and aesthetics of the image,” “the Cretan school – a historical-theological approach,” “the way the face of a saint is revealed to us,” and “the theology of the image of the Bridegroom,” the author, as a scholar (theologian and theorist of Byzantine art) and icon conservator, presents his personal relationship with the icons and their art, summarizing his iconological thought within these seven essays.
Throughout many years, he has strived to emphasize the ecclesiastical and Eucharistic character of the Orthodox icon. The icon, as he has learned and served it for approximately thirty years up to the present, represents, for him, primarily a point of “personal encounter” within the space of Orthodox faith, and secondarily, an object of study and ministry.
The common thread that runs through and internally unites all the texts in this publication is the search for the meaning of our sacred art, as well as its place in the life of not only the believer but also the contemporary art-loving Greek.
No products in the cart.