Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image - Couverture rigide

Rumpza, Stephanie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 100931792X ISBN 13 : 9781009317924

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

How can something finite mediate an infinite God? Weaving patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-George Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, Stephanie Rumpza proposes a new answer to this paradox by offering a fresh and original approach to the Byzantine icon. She demonstrates the power and relevance of the phenomenological method to integrate hermeneutic aesthetics and divine transcendence, notably how the material and visual dimensions of the icon are illuminated by traditional practices of prayer. Rumpza's study targets a problem that is a major fault line in the continental philosophy of religion – the integrity of finite beings I relation to a God that transcends them. For philosophers, her book demonstrates the relevance of a cherished religious practice of Eastern Christianity. For art historians, she proposes a novel philosophical paradigm for understanding the icon as it is approached in practice.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stephanie Rumpza is a visiting researcher at the Sorbonne University (Paris-IV).  Her research focuses on the mediation of image, word, and expression and the relation between phenomenological and theological thinking.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 100931792X
• ISBN 13: 9781009317924
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 350
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