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Oksident, 2023 When the Byzantine Emperor Justinian inaugurated the Church of Hagia Sophia in 537 AD, mosaic icons did not exist. Instead, Justinian’s program included non-figurative and abstract decorative motifs and lots of crosses. The first appearance of the mosaic
Bilal Baş
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Iconoclasm – A Road to Modernization?
European Review, 2022 My point of departure is a conflict over images in the churches in Bergen, Norway in the 1560s, around 30 years after the Reformation. This introduced a brief period of iconoclasm in Denmark–Norway, inspired by Reformed theology. Soon, however, mainstream Lutheranism took over and statues and pictures were reintroduced. The different views on images in
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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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À l’origine du culte du Précieux Sang de Fécamp, le Saint Voult de Lucques
Tabularia, 2002 After the Crucifixion, Nicodemus, accompanied by Joseph of Arimathaea, receives and buries the body of Christ. Nicodemus is one of the last people to have been in physical contact with Christ’s mortal remains, which he saw and touched. Because of this he
Jean-Guy Gouttebroze
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 On September 24, 787, the works of the VII Ecumenical Synod were opened in the ‘Saint Sophia’ Church in Nicaea, after the first attempt, on August 7, 786, had failed. Although the nominal presidency was held by the legates of Pope Adrian I, the effective
Chifar Nicolae
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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China
, 2023 Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (1912–1949), challenging the historiographical paradigm that modern (or New) Confucianism sought to preserve traditions against the ...
Major, Philippe
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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The Ethics of Blindness and the Postmodern Sublime: Levinas and Lyotard
Вестник Мининского университета, 2017 The excerpt below is the final chapter of M. Jay’s “Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought” concerning the long-term confrontment “iconoclasm vs visual imaginary” within modern European culture.
M. .. Jay, A. V. Khazina, F. V. Nicolai
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Immortal Combat: Iconoclasm and the Hebrew Bible [PDF]
, 2020 Biblical iconoclasm is any biblical text that describes the disruption of religious observances by physical violence against cult materials. This can include removing cult objects from their appointed places, god-napping divine bodies, outright ...
McClure, Albert L.
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