Book Description
An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.
Author : Laura Saetveit Miles
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843845342
An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book.
Author : Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714844473
While the message is Christian, the human drama of the Annunciation has a universal appeal. The images in this book are simultaneously expressions of religious devotion, depictions of human drama and emotion, and great works of art.
Author : Mark Byford
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2018-03-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781906113254
Mark Byford's 'The Annunciation: A Pilgrim's Quest' explores through conversations with clerics, theologians, historians and laypersons the encounter between the angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, a meeting that may be a pivotal point in Christianity. Has the status and significance of the Annunciation been lost in today's world?
Author : Eugene LaVerdiere
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781568545578
This book presents a thorough and enjoyable examination of the Annunciation to Mary in salvation history. Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS, noted scripture scholar, enters into Luke's story of the Annunciation to Mary as an ardent connoisseur of art might enter into a painting to view it from the inside. Noting the tradition that Luke was an artist, LaVerdiere explores Luke's account of the Annunciation in ways that reveal the Evangelist's artistry as a storyteller, his theology, and his faith. Each of the six chapters at the heart of the book examines a particular phase of the Annunciation story from linguistic and theological points of view. LaVerdiere's scholarship and deep faith lead the reader to a deeper and fuller appreciation of the Evangelist's artistry as well as to a consideration of the depth of the mystery revealed in the scriptural account. Readers will find LaVerdiere's analysis not only thorough and professional, but also enlightening and evocative. Book jacket.
Author : Ellen Gilchrist
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316313087
Short story-writer Ellen Gilchrist's first novel is set among the upper crust in New Orleans.
Author : Tammy L. Montgomery
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0739175785
Fear grips those who doubt that their existence has meaning, and the prevailing notion that humans are situated on a dot in the middle of a dark, cold universe leaves people shivering in cosmic insignificance. Many would argue that science and technology have separated individuals from God while others would say that people have lost their faith, and some would assert that God is dead. Many simply do not know what to believe. Today’s self-help industry is a testament to the search for meaning in an age of uncertainty and faltering religious structures. The truth is that technology and science now answer many of the questions that used to be left to God. This development has confounded people’s ability to integrate what is known today with what was once thought. The disparity between past and present beliefs may be observed in the concept of the angel. There are many who claim that any lingering belief in angels is merely the residue of imaginary or wishful thinking, and there are others who hold that angels (wings, halos, and harps) literally exist. How is one to reconcile such contradictory beliefs? C. G. Jung’s theory of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence) provides a vehicle for the exploration and possible reconciliation of such questions. Rather than echoing the skeptic who says angels cannot exist or the religious enthusiast who affirms their immanence, one might reframe the entire discussion. Like the biblical concept of annunciation, in which an angel delivers a heavenly message to an earthly individual, synchronicity defines the moment at which the eternal touches the temporal.
Author : Sarah Drummond
Publisher : Unicorn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781911604112
Divine Conception: The Art of the Annunciation asks the questions: How to evoke the invisible in the visible? How to convey the divine in the human?Focussing on twelve specific aspects of the Annunciation (for instance, where Mary is reading, or where Joseph is present at the event), the book explores images (paintings, illuminated manuscripts, ivories, mosaics, sculpture, wall paintings, metal work) in the context of the period when they were made. Each chapter reflects on contemporaneous treatises, sermons, patron's requirements, devotional practices, artistic conventions, theological concerns, that informed the artist and his audience.The works of art discussed relate to the Latin West from the earliest times, with a cut-off date towards the middle of the 16th century.
Author : Sally Read
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1621641511
A moving and beautifully written story about a British poet’s conversion from staunch atheism to Catholicism in the space of nine electric months. In 2010, Sally Read was heralded as one of the bright young writers of the British poetry scene. Feminist, atheist and deeply anti-Catholic, she was writing a book about women’s reproduction and sexuality when, during her research, she spoke with a Catholic priest. That mysterious encounter led Read on a dramatic journey of spiritual quest and discovery which ended up at the Vatican itself, where she was received into the Catholic Church in December of that year. This story is one that, unsurprisingly, has the vivid flavor and beauty of poetry. Read relates her encounters with the Father, the Spirit and then the Son, exactly in the way they were given to her—timely, revelatory and compelling. These transforming events throw new light onto the experiences of her past—her father’s death, her work as a psychiatric nurse, her life as a single woman in London, as a mother and as a writer. She reveals how she developed a close intimacy with the new love that erupted into her life, Christ himself, and how she comes to embrace a doctrine she had previously rejected as bigoted and stifling. Sally Read’s story is a testimony to the powerhouse of Christianity: divine love and the life-changing encounter with Christ.
Author : George Corbett
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783747293
Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the twenty-First Century, edited by George Corbett, answers this need, evaluating the relationship between the sacred and the composition, performance, and appreciation of music. Through the theme of ‘annunciations’, this volume interrogates how, when, why, through and to whom God communicates in the Old and New Testaments. In doing so, it tackles the intimate relationship between Scriptural reflection and musical practice in the past, its present condition, and what the future might hold. Annunciations comprises three parts. Part I sets out flexible theological and compositional frameworks for a constructive relationship between the sacred and music. Part II presents the reflections of theologians and composers involved in collaborating on new pieces of sacred choral music, alongside the six new scores and links to the recordings. Part III considers the reality of programming and performing sacred works today. This volume provides an indispensable resource for scholars and artists working at the interface between theology and the arts, and for those involved in sacred music. However, it will also be of interest to anyone concerned with the ways in which the Divine communicates through word and artistry to humanity.
Author : David Plante
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The romance of an art historian and an art book editor, both Americans, as they travel through Europe in search of a painting by an Italian artist. They each have experienced tragedies in their families and the journey turns into a quest for meaning in life.