Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture - Softcover

Miles, Margaret R.

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Miles's pathbreaking work shows how art and architecture have shaped religious understanding throughout the history of Christianity.

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About the Author

Margaret R. Miles is emerita professor of historical theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Her books include Reading Augustine on Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation (2021), The Long Goodbye (2017), Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (2011), A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 (2008), and The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (2005).

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ISBN 10:  0807010065 ISBN 13:  9780807010068
Publisher: Beacon Pr, 1985
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