Overview

Icons provide depictions of God or encounters with the divine that enable reflection and prayer. 'In the Beginning is the Icon' explores the value of these images for a theology of liberation. Iconology, art theory, philosophical aesthetics, art history and anthropology are integrated with rigorous theological reflection to argue that the creation and observation of pictures can have a liberating effect on humanity. In presenting art from across the world, 'In the Beginning is the Icon' reflects the ethnocentricity of both art and religious studies and offers a new cross-cultural approach to the theology of art.

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Author:   Sigurd Bergmann
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781845531720

ISBN 10:   1845531728
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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A breakthrough in theological aesthetics. - Nicholas Woltersdorff, Yale University

...Bergmann lays out a fascinating and reflective outline of scholarship so far within the broader field of art theology or theological aesthetics. Jonathan Koestle-Cate, ACE Trust Sigurd Bergmann's book In the beginning is the icon, with the subtitle A liberative theology of images, visual arts and culture, presents an alternate perspective in the approach to visual arts in relation to religious belief. Marina Vicelja, IKON

Author Information

Sigurd Bergmann is Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Letters and Sciences and on the editorial boards of the journals Junge Kirche, Blackwell s Compass Religion, Theology, Ecotheology and Norsk Teologisk Tidskrift. He is the author of a number of books, most recently in English, God in Context: A Survey in Contextual Theology (Ashgate, 2003), Creation Set Free: The Spirit as Liberator of Nature (Eerdmans 2005), and Architecture, Aesth/Ethics and Religion (ed.) (IKO-Verlag/Transaction 2005).

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