St Theodore the Studite's defence of the icons: theology and philosophy in ninth-century Byzantium

St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons' provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos. Torstein Theodor Tollefsen explores Theodoreþs '...

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1. Verfasser: Tollefsen, Torstein Theodor 1953- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press 2018
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Oxford early Christian studies
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Zusammenfassung:St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons' provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos. Torstein Theodor Tollefsen explores Theodoreþs 'philosophy of images', namely his doctrine of images and his arguments that justify the legitimacy of images in general and of Christ in particular. Tollefsen offers a historical, theological, and philosophical exploration of Theodore's doctrine of images and his arguments justifying the legitimacy of images and of Christ. In addition to the main elements of Theodoreþs defence of the icon, like the Christological issue, the relation between image and prototype, the question of veneration, his explanation of why we may say of an image that 'this is Christ', and his innovative thinking on the representative character of the icon, the book has an introduction that places Theodore in the history of Byzantine philosophy: he has some knowledge of traditional logical topics and is able to utilize argumentative forms in countering his iconoclast opponents. The volume also provides an appendix which shows that the making of images is somehow natural given the character of Christianity as a religion
Beschreibung:x, 193 Seiten
ISBN:9780198816775
0198816774

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