The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm Besanon Alain
The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm Besanon Alain Philosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its…
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The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm Besanon Alain
Philosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. The author then addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods. The Forbidden Image traces the dual strains of "iconophilia" and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two and a half millennia in the West.Alain Besan on's work begins with a comprehensive examination of the status of the image in Greek, Judaic, Islamic, and Christian thought.
"Even the reader who has heard something of the Byzantine quarrels about images and Besan on completes The Forbidden Image with an examination of how iconophilia and iconoclasm have been debated in the modern period.
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