The Art of God Incarnate

The Art of God Incarnate
Author: Aidan Nichols
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498297471

The Art of God Incarnate proposes that visual art is a good way to think of how the incarnation--the central truth-claim of Christianity--can be said to reveal the divine. In the book of Genesis, the human being, fresh from the hands of the Creator, is the image of God in the temple of the world. In an environment of distorted images the prophets sought to make visible by symbolic gestures the divine attitude toward Israel, as well as looking forward to a new divine intervention to redeem history and transfigure human lives. For the New Testament faith, this transforming intervention has come about through the restoration of the divine image in man. Jesus Christ is the true and living icon of the Father and the model from whose radiance human beings generally can be re-fashioned. Despite the anti-iconic legislation of the Hebrew Bible, it was inevitable, therefore, that under the New Covenant a visual art would make its appearance, since God had now made himself visible in his humanized Son. During the iconoclast crisis which shook the Eastern Roman Empire, it was the achievement of the later Greek fathers to spell out this claim doctrinally. Modern aesthetics can throw further light, especially by way of phenomenology and semiotics, on how an artwork can be a communicator of meaning and truth. Finally, there is the question of how human beings are to make their own this revelation of God in the visual realm. In the Latin tradition, especially among the monastic teachers of the twelfth century, the biblical theme of man made in the divine image and likeness was used to speak of how people can be changed by the fresh resources that revelation provides. Through growth in charity they themselves can become saints, "images" of God.

God Incarnate

God Incarnate
Author: Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567033481

Oliver Crisp examines the doctrine of the incarnation as one of the central and defining dogmas of the Christian faith.

The Incarnate God

The Incarnate God
Author: Catherine Aslanoff
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780881411300

A multilevel catechism intended for use in classrooms and study groups, or individual edification and growth. Two volume set with over 110 iconographic illustrations

... God Incarnate

... God Incarnate
Author: Hollingworth Tully Kingdon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1890
Genre: Incarnation
ISBN:

The Resurrection of God Incarnate

The Resurrection of God Incarnate
Author: Richard Swinburne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2003-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199257450

Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead is perhaps the most critical and contentious issue in the study of Christianity. Rather than depend on statements in the New Testament, Swinburne argues for a wider approach.

God and the Art of Happiness

God and the Art of Happiness
Author: Ellen T. Charry
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-12-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802860323

Western Christian theology is skittish about happiness. We hope for future, eternal happiness, but we avoid considering happiness in this life as if we suspect such a thing is not allowed. That You May Have Life offers a refreshing interpretation of happiness as a way of life grounded in scripture and the incarnate Christ. Ellen Charry here reveals how the Bible encourages the happiness and joy that accompany obedience to the Creator, enhancing both our own life and the lives of those around us. This advances the well being of creation, which, in turn, causes God to delight with, in, and for us. With this original theory of the Christian life, this book will encourage intelligent readers to take part in truly abundant life.

Intimate Jesus

Intimate Jesus
Author: Andrew Angel
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281072418

This is the first book to open up for general readers key questions about Jesus’ experience of human sexuality and his attitude towards it in himself and others. It examines all the relevant sayings and actions of Jesus and others in the Gospels, and explores their first-century cultural context (Jewish, Greek and Roman) in order to better understand the historical Jesus as a fully rounded human being.

God Incarnate (Classic Reprint)

God Incarnate (Classic Reprint)
Author: Hollingworth Tully Kingdon
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-05-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780259493532

Excerpt from God Incarnate The conditions of the Trust under which the fol lowing Lectures were delivered, require that they Should be printed. In no way is there any claim of originality for them. Indeed, the only merit they may have is that they endeavor to express old truths sometimes in modern words, rarely in new language. It will be objected that the subject is too vast for treatment in so small a space. But the object has been to stimulate inquiry within the limits prescribed by the Trust. It is of the utmost importance that the attention of candidates for Holy Orders should be concentrated upon the fundamental doctrine of the Incarnation. At no time has this been of greater importance than at the present moment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.