The iconic imagination /:

Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attri...

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Main Author: Hedley, Douglas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2016]
Series:Philosophy of religion
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. Douglas Hedley argues that religious ideas can be presented in a sensory form, especially in aesthetic works. Drawing explicitly on a Platonic metaphysics of the image as a bearer of transcendence, The Iconic Imagination shows the singular capacity and power of images to represent the transcendent in the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. In opposition to cold abstraction and narrow asceticism, Hedley shows that the image furnishes a vision of the eternal through the visible and temporal. --
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-291) and index.
ISBN:9781441151919
1441151915
9781441176073
1441176071
9781501302657
1501302655

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