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Book The Iconoclast as Reformer

Download or read book The Iconoclast as Reformer written by Robert Jerome Glennon and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works of Brann  the Iconoclast

Download or read book The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast written by William Cowper Brann and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reformation of the Image

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2004-05-03
  • ISBN : 9780226450063
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book The Reformation of the Image written by Joseph Leo Koerner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his 95 Theses, Martin Luther advanced the radical notion that all Christians could enjoy a direct, personal relationship with God—shattering years of Catholic tradition and obviating the need for intermediaries like priests and saints between the individual believer and God. The text of the Bible, the Word of God itself, Luther argued, revealed the only true path to salvation—not priestly ritual and saintly iconography. But if words—not iconic images—showed the way to salvation, why didn't religious imagery during the Reformation disappear along with indulgences? The answer, according to Joseph Leo Koerner, lies in the paradoxical nature of Protestant religious imagery itself, which is at once both iconic and iconoclastic. Koerner masterfully demonstrates this point not only with a multitude of Lutheran images, many never before published, but also with a close reading of a single pivotal work—Lucas Cranach the Elder's altarpiece for the City Church in Wittenberg (Luther's parish). As Koerner shows, Cranach, breaking all the conventions of traditional Catholic iconography, created an entirely new aesthetic for the new Protestant ethos. In the Crucifixion scene of the altarpiece, for instance, Christ is alone and stripped of all his usual attendants—no Virgin Mary, no John the Baptist, no Mary Magdalene—with nothing separating him from Luther (preaching the Word) and his parishioners. And while the Holy Spirit is nowhere to be seen—representation of the divine being impossible—it is nonetheless dramatically present as the force animating Christ's drapery. According to Koerner, it is this "iconoclash" that animates the best Reformation art. Insightful and breathtakingly original, The Reformation of the Image compellingly shows how visual art became indispensable to a religious movement built on words.

Book Reformation and the Visual Arts

Download or read book Reformation and the Visual Arts written by Sergiusz Michalski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a vast geographical and chronological span, and bringing new and exciting material to light, The Reformation and the Visual Arts provides a unique overvie of religious images and iconoclasm, starting with the consequences of the Byzantine image controversy and ending with the Eastern Orthodox churches of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the image question played a large role in the divisions within European Protestantism and was intricately connected with the Eucharist controversy. He analyses the positions of the major Protestant reformers - Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and Karlstadt - on the legitimacy of religious paintings and investigates iconoclasm both as a form of religious and political protest and as a complex set of mock-revolutionary rites and denigration rituals. The book also contains new research on relations between Protestant iconoclasm and the extreme icon-worship of the Eastern Orthodox churches, and provides a brief discussion of Eastern protestantizing sects, especially in Russia.

Book Atheism of Theism  Debate between Iconoclast  the accredited champion of British atheists  and others  and William Gillespie

Download or read book Atheism of Theism Debate between Iconoclast the accredited champion of British atheists and others and William Gillespie written by pseud ICONOCLAST and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World of Benjamin Cardozo

Download or read book The World of Benjamin Cardozo written by Richard Polenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of America's most influential judges, first on New York State's Court of Appeals and then on the U.S. Supreme Court, Cardozo oversaw legal transformation daily. How he arrived at his rulings, with their far-reaching consequences, becomes clear in this book, the first to explore the connections between Cardozo's life and his jurisprudence.

Book Iconoclasm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacy Boldrick
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351563408
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book Iconoclasm written by Stacy Boldrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'iconoclasm' is most often used in relation to sculpture, because it is sculptures that most visibly bear witness to physical damage. But damage can also be invisible, and the actions of iconoclasm can be subtle and varying. Iconoclastic acts include the addition of objects and accessories, as well as their removal, or may be represented in text or imagery that never materially affects the original object. This book brings together a collection of essays each of which fundamentally questions the meaning of the word iconoclasm as a descriptive category. Each contribution examines the impact of iconoclastic acts on different representational forms, and assesses the development and historical implications of these various destructive and transformative behaviours.

Book The Fall of the House of Roosevelt

Download or read book The Fall of the House of Roosevelt written by Michael Janeway and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.

Book Pursuing Justice

Download or read book Pursuing Justice written by Gilbert J. Gall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-02-19 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the career of the nation's most prominent liberal labor lawyer during a period of ascending labor power. Pressman was also one of the most prominent underground communists active in American political life from the early New Deal to the beginning of the Cold War.

Book Raja Rammohun Roy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abidullah Al-Ansari Ghazi
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-11-16
  • ISBN : 1453580522
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Raja Rammohun Roy written by Abidullah Al-Ansari Ghazi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional work is a study of the interreligious views of Raja Rammohun Roy - the 19th century's premier Hindu reformer, theologian, and polemicist – whose many initiatives heralded a rebirth of Hindu identity, both in India and abroad. The momentum of Roy's initiatives continued thereafter in all of India's efforts in religious, social and political transformation. His works and ideas awakened a self-awareness to discover the past, making it relevant to the present and visualizing a promising future. Herein is discussed Roy's meeting with both Islam and Christianity, an encounter that sharpened the Hindu mind to come to terms with these two vigorous Abrahamic faiths - one of which held a long and checkered history in India and the other, the faith of colonial domination.

Book Catholicon  or  The Christian philosopher

Download or read book Catholicon or The Christian philosopher written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reformation and the Visual Arts

Download or read book The Reformation and the Visual Arts written by Sergiusz Michalski and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a vast geographical and chronological span, and bringing new and exciting material to light, The Reformation and the Visual Arts provides a unique overvie of religious images and iconoclasm, starting with the consequences of the Byzantine image controversy and ending with the Eastern Orthodox churches of the nineteenth century. The author argues that the image question played a large role in the divisions within European Protestantism and was intricately connected with the Eucharist controversy. He analyses the positions of the major Protestant reformers - Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and Karlstadt - on the legitimacy of religious paintings and investigates iconoclasm both as a form of religious and political protest and as a complex set of mock-revolutionary rites and denigration rituals. The book also contains new research on relations between Protestant iconoclasm and the extreme icon-worship of the Eastern Orthodox churches, and provides a brief discussion of Eastern protestantizing sects, especially in Russia.

Book Red  White  and Blue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark V. Tushnet
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2015-06-12
  • ISBN : 0700621024
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Red White and Blue written by Mark V. Tushnet and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first paperback edition of a classic of American constitutional theory. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I Professor Tushnet appraises the five major competing “grand theories” of constitutional law and interpretation, and, argues that none of them satisfy their own requirements for coherence and judicial constraint. In Part II the author offers a descriptive sociology of constitutional doctrine and raises critical questions as to whether a grand theory is necessary, is it possible to construct a coherent, useful grand theory, and is construction of an uncontroversial grand theory possible? Professor Tushnet’s new Afterword is organized in parallel fashion to the original text. Part I offers a new survey of the contemporary terrain of constitutional interpretation. Part II provides an extended discussion of the most prominent of contemporary efforts to provide an external analysis of constitutional law, the idea of regime politics. This includes discussion of major court decisions, including Bush v. Gore and Citizens United.

Book Organized Freethought

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shirley A. Mullen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-07
  • ISBN : 135162847X
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Organized Freethought written by Shirley A. Mullen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England’s working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence of a Victorian religion of atheism. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century religious and social history.

Book A Life of Ernest Starling

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Henderson
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-11-18
  • ISBN : 1461475260
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book A Life of Ernest Starling written by John Henderson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Starling (1866-1927) was pre-eminent in the golden age of British Physiology. His name is usually associated with his "Law of the Heart,” but his discovery of secretin (the first hormone whose mode of action was explained) and his work on capillaries were more important contributions. He coined the word 'hormone' one hundred years ago. His analysis of capillary function demonstrated that equal and opposite forces move across the capillary wall--an outward (hydrostatic) force and an inward (osmotic) force derived from plasma proteins.

Book The Expositor s Bible Judges And Ruth

Download or read book The Expositor s Bible Judges And Ruth written by Robert A. Watson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth" by using Robert A. Watson is a comprehensive exploration of those biblical books, imparting readers profound insights into the ancient narratives and theological issues they present. Watson, a skilled theologian, brings these Old Testament texts to existence through meticulous analysis and considerate observation. In "Judges," Watson delves into the turbulent length of Israel's records, characterized by the cycle of sin, repentance, and deliverance thru charismatic leaders referred to as judges. The writer skillfully uncovers the ethical and religious classes embedded inside the narratives, providing readers with a deeper information of God's interplay with His human beings. Turning to the book of "Ruth," Watson explores the intimate tale of loyalty, redemption, and providence. The narrative unfolds in opposition to the backdrop of the Judges era, revealing God's sovereign plan thru the lives of ordinary people. Watson's work is marked by a stability of scholarly rigor and accessibility, making "The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth" a treasured resource for each theologians and well known readers looking for a nuanced exploration of these biblical texts.