The Figure of Christ: Rudolf Steiner and the Spiritual Intention Behind the Goetheanum's Central Work of Art Contributor(s): Selg, Peter (Author), Barton, Matthew (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1906999015 ISBN-13: 9781906999018 Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 |
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Spirituality |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.35 lbs) 80 pages |
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Publisher Description: "Yes, that is the Christ. This is how my spiritual eye perceived him in Palestine." --Rudolf Steiner (speaking of his sculpture, The Representative of Humanity) Rudolf Steiner referred to The Representative of Humanity--the wooden "group" sculpture of the figure of Christ surrounded by adversary spiritual beings--as the center of the first Goetheanum. Steiner even told the architect of the second Goetheanum that the sculpture he made with Edith Maryon should occupy the same central position it did in the first building. What was Steiner's essential purpose for the sculptural group within the mystery building he conceived, and why did he regard it as the "crown" of the building? What were his intentions--specifically, what were the spiritual aims behind Steiner's remarkable depiction of Christ? Steiner described the core purpose of Anthroposophy to be a preparation for Christ's etheric reappearance. The Christ he sculpted was not the possession of a specific community with a religious worldview, but a being active in all of humanity and, thus, "a figure of the future." In this focused and powerful short book, Peter Selg engages with these highly contemporary issues, providing thoughtful insights and answers that point to mysteries of the future and humanity's development and the transformation of evil. C O N T E N T S Preface 1. The Figure of Christ in Spiritual Science 2. "There Will Be Opposition" 3. "Christ Will Stand beside the Human Being" Appendix: Work on the Group, by Assya Turgeniev |
Contributor Bio(s): Barton, Matthew: - Matthew Barton is a translator, editor, teacher, and poet, and taught kindergarten for many years at the Bristol Waldorf School. His first collection of poems was Learning To Row (1999). He has won numerous prizes for his work, including an Arts Council Writer's Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship.Selg, Peter: - Peter Selg was born in 1963 in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. Dr. Selg is now director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany). He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books, many of which have been published in English. |