TRINITY AND INCARNATION IN ANGLO-SAXON ART AND THOUGHT by Barbara Catherine Raw ( 9780521030496 )

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TRINITY AND INCARNATION IN ANGLO-SAXON ART AND THOUGHT

By:

Barbara Catherine Raw

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0521030498

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9780521030496

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 August, 2006

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England v. 21

Pages:

248

Description:

An illustrated study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period.

Synopsis:

This book is a study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period. It examines the meaning of the representations of the Trinity in tenth- and eleventh-century English manuscripts and their relationship to Anglo-Saxon theology, and to earlier debates about the legitimacy of representations of the divine. The book's unifying theme is that of the image: the image of the Trinity in the human soul; Christ, the perfect image and visible form of the invisible God; redemption as the restoration of the imperfect human image to its original likeness through contemplation of its divine archetype; prayer as an anticipation of the contemplation of heaven, and art as a form of contemplation. The book, which contains a selection of black and white illustrations, will be of interest to art historians, theologians and literary scholars alike.

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23 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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