| The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art Revised Edition Contributor(s): Finney, Paul Corby (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195113810 ISBN-13: 9780195113815 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $97.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1997 Annotation: 'The Invisible God is an important book, a fresh and long-needed reexamination of a range of issues in early Christian art and a challenge...to a number of prevailing assumptions in the field. It deserves the attention of classicists, students of art, historians of late antiquity, and patristic scholars.'New England Classical Newsletter and Journal |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - Art | Criticism & Theory - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 124 |
| Lexile Measure: 1400 |
| Series: Earliest Christians on Art |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.16" W x 9.26" (1.30 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This revisionist study challenges the received opinion that in its earliest manifestations Christianity was a form of religiosity opposed both on principle and in fact to the use of pictures. Paul Corby Finney argues that the well-known absence of Christian pictures before A.D. 200 is due to a complex interplay of social, economic, and political factors, and is not, as is commonly assumed, a result of an anti-image ideology. The book documents the origins of Christian art based on some of the oldest surviving Christian archaeological evidence, and it seeks to show how the Christian products conformed to the already-existing pagan types and models. This study will interest scholars and students in the fields of church history, ancient history, archaeology, art history, classics, and historical theology. |
