Pavel Florensky
Iconostasis - USA St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 1996 - 170 22
Translated from Russian by Donald Sheehan and Olga Andrejev ; Introduction by Donald Sheehan
Introduction : the spiritual structure of dreams -- Spiritual sobriety and the iconic face -- Orthodox services and the icon -- The councils on the icon and the iconpainter's canonic life -- A dialogue with Sophia Ivanova. The history of artistic technique, Western and iconic. Iconic clothes and the meaning of gold. The ontology of making the icon. The metaphysics of light and St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians -- Conclusion: the Egyptian death-mask and the life of the saint.
Iconostasis is Fr. Pavel's final theological work. Composed in 1922, it explores in highly original terms the significance of the icon: its philosophic depth, its spiritual history, its empirical technique. In doing so, Fr. Pavel also sketches a new history of both Western religious art and the Orthodox icon: a history under the direct operation of the Holy Spirit. The work is original, challenging and profoundly articulate. This translation is the first complete English version.
0881411175 9780881411171
1996
96036094
English
Theology
Icons
Icons
Christianity and art
Iconostasis - USA St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 1996 - 170 22
Translated from Russian by Donald Sheehan and Olga Andrejev ; Introduction by Donald Sheehan
Introduction : the spiritual structure of dreams -- Spiritual sobriety and the iconic face -- Orthodox services and the icon -- The councils on the icon and the iconpainter's canonic life -- A dialogue with Sophia Ivanova. The history of artistic technique, Western and iconic. Iconic clothes and the meaning of gold. The ontology of making the icon. The metaphysics of light and St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians -- Conclusion: the Egyptian death-mask and the life of the saint.
Iconostasis is Fr. Pavel's final theological work. Composed in 1922, it explores in highly original terms the significance of the icon: its philosophic depth, its spiritual history, its empirical technique. In doing so, Fr. Pavel also sketches a new history of both Western religious art and the Orthodox icon: a history under the direct operation of the Holy Spirit. The work is original, challenging and profoundly articulate. This translation is the first complete English version.
0881411175 9780881411171
1996
96036094
English
Theology
Icons
Icons
Christianity and art