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The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art Book

The Invisible God : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195082524 : 0195082524 : 01 Jun 1997 : This treatise refutes the assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus did not produce art. It shows that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they started to produce art as decoration.Read More

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    This revisionist study challenges the received opinion that in its earliest manifestations Christianity was a form of religiosity opposed both on principle and in fact to the use of pictures. Paul Corby Finney argues that the well-known absence of Christian pictures before A.D. 200 is due to a complex interplay of social, economic, and political factors, and is not, as is commonly assumed, a result of an anti-image ideology. The book documents the origins of Christian art based on some of the oldest surviving Christian archaeological evidence, and it seeks to show how the Christian products conformed to the already-existing pagan types and models. This study will interest scholars and students in the fields of church history, ancient history, archaeology, art history, classics, and historical theology.

  • 0195082524
  • 9780195082524
  • Paul Corby Finney
  • 13 October 1994
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
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