[PDF.97vb] The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art (Princeton Paperbacks)

The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art (Princeton Paperbacks)

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 | #1014311 in Books |  1999-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.14 x.85 x7.42l,1.95 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.| Refutes a long-dead theory of derivation from political emperor-art|By Michael Hoffman|Mathews is primarily concerned to refute a particular early 20th-Century German and Eastern European ideological theory that the portrayal of Jesus in art was derived directly from the detailed portrayal of Roman emperors in art and that this artistic portrayal of Jesus as emperor legitimat| |"This is a sumptuously illustrated book, in which the pictures are well married to the text. It makes an illuminating way into patristic theology and the religions of the first six centuries."--Leslie Holden, Theology

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Between the third and sixth centuries, the ancient gods, goddesses, and heroes who had populated the imagination of humankind for a millennium were replaced by a new imagery of Christ and his saints. Thomas Mathews explores the many different, often surprising, artistic images and religious interpretations of Christ during this period. He challenges the accepted theory of the "Emperor Mystique," which, interpreting Christ as king, derives the vocabulary of Christian a...

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