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The doctrine of the Incarnation was wellspring and catalyst for theories of images verbal, material, and spiritual. Section I, “Representing the Mystery of the Incarnation”, takes up questions about the representability of the mystery. Section II, “Imago Dei and the Incarnate Word”, investigates how Christ’s status as the image of God was seen to license images material and spiritual. Section III, “Literary Figurations of the Incarnation”, considers the verbal production of images contemplating the divine and human nature of Christ. Section IV, “Tranformative Analogies of Matter and Spirit”, delves into ways that material properties and processes, in their effects on the beholder, were analogized to Christ’s hypostasis. Section V, “Visualizing the Flesh of Christ”, considers the relation between the Incarnation and the Passion.
The doctrine of the Incarnation was wellspring and catalyst for theories of images verbal, material, and spiritual. Section I, “Representing the Mystery of the Incarnation”, takes up questions about the representability of the mystery. Section II, “Imago Dei and the Incarnate Word”, investigates ...
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Walter Melion, Ph.D. (1988), University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s ‘Schilder-Boeck’ (Chicago: 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550–1625 (Philadelphia: 2009). He is series editor of Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History.
Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Recently she has published The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (Cambridge, 2006), and edited the Brill Companion to the Christian Tradition The Eucharist in the Reformation (Brill, 2012).
Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Recently she has published The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (Cambridge, 2006), and edited the Brill Companion to the Christian Tradition The Eucharist in the Reformation (Brill, 2012).
Walter Melion, Ph.D. (1988), University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s ‘Schilder-Boeck’ (Chicago: 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern De...
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