Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia

by Natalie Carnes

Book Overview

Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present-from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understanding of images as lifeless objects, this book offers a theological meditation on the ways images convey presence into our world. Just as Christ negates himself in order...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503604225
• ISBN13: 9781503604223
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"