Reformation of the Image

Name: Reformation of the Image
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ISBN: 9780226448374

ISBN-10: 0226448371

ISBN-13: 9780226448374

Edition: 2008

Authors: Joseph Leo Koerner

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Martin Luther preached the radical notion that we are saved through faith alone. With one stroke, he overturned a thousand years of practice and teaching. Gone was the need for saintly intercessors and a special priesthood or the richly decorated and image-filled churches in which such mediation could take place. What counted now was faith arriving inwardly, in each individual, through the text of the Bible—the naked Word of God itself. But if words—not iconic images—led the believer to salvation, why didn’t religious imagery disappear during the Reformation?nbsp; The answer, according to Joseph Leo Koerner’s masterful The Reformation of the Image, lies in the paradoxical nature of…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 494
Size: 9.25" wide x 6.50" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



Timeline


Preface


Introduction



Ideas About the Thing



A Tragedy for Art?



Territorial Battles



Appropriations



A Reformation Altarpiece



Cleansing



Actions



Beliefs



Fictions



Communications



The Arrested Gesture



The Word



The Cross



The Outstretched Finger



A Hidden God?



Crude Painting



Preaching



Teaching



Ubiquity



Sacrament



From Custom to Rule



Behind the Mass



The Tables Turned



Ministry



Church Building


Epilogue


References


Photo Acknowledgements


Index