“It is significant that the struggle for the image occurred at the juncture of two periods in Church history, each of which formulated a different aspect of the dogma of the Incarnation. Between these two periods stands the dogma of the veneration of icons, like a boundary stone looking in both directions at once, yet uniting the teachings of each. The entire period of the Ecumenical Councils was essentially christological; it articulated Orthodox teaching concerning the Person of Christ, simultaneously God and man. [...]The period that followed, extending from the ninth to approximately the sixteenth century, was pneumatological. The central question, around which both heresies and the Church’s teaching revolved, then became that of the Holy Spirit and His activity in man, that is, the effect of the Incarnation.” —“11: The Post-Iconoclastic Period”
CONTENTS
11 The Post-Iconoclastic Period 12 Hesychasm and Humanism: The Paleologan Renaissance 13 Hesychasm and the Flowering of Russian Art 14 The Muscovite Councils of the 16th Century: Their Role in Sacred Art 15 The Art of the 17th Century: An Art Divided, The Tradition Abandoned 16 The Great Council of Moscow and the Image of God the Father 17 Art in the Russian Church During the Synodal Period 18 The Icon in the Modern World Index List of Plates
Item Number: BKV797 Publication data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1992 Format: softcover Number of pages: 528 Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.8 cm × 15.2 cm × 2.1 cm Additional information: black-and-white and full-color illustrations ISBN: 978‒0‒88141‒123‒2
