Title: Image As Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture
Publisher: Beacon Pr
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0807010065
ISBN 13: 9780807010068
Binding: hardcover
Condition: New
Weight: 20 ounces

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Argues that histories of Christianity should analyze religious artwork as well as texts, discusses attitudes towards religious images, and examines the portrayal of women

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Miles (Harvard Divinity School) carefully develops a discussion of language, hermeneutics, and the neglected hermeneutics of visual images. She then gives a lengthy consideration to visual images in fourth-century Roman churches, to images of women in 14th-century Tuscan painting, and to visions and images in 16th-century Protestant and Roman Catholic Reform. Her final chapters define the applicability of image use findings to a contemporary society flooded with secular media images, yet spiritually improverished in terms of images. A truly exciting book which will be of special interest to artists, art historians, church historians, theologians, and those concerned with hermeneutics. Carolyn M Craft, English, Philosophy, & Foreign Languages Dept., Longwood Coll., Farmville, Va.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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