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Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors
Engelsk Hardback
Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors
Engelsk Hardback

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Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as craft. The ancient concept of craft (ars, techne) spans ''high'' or ''fine'' art and practical or applied arts. It unites the beautiful and the useful. It includes both skills or practices (like medicine and music) and productive arts like painting, sculpting and the composition of texts. By using craft as a guiding concept for understanding fourth Christian authorship, this book recovers a sense of them engaged in a shared practice which is both beautiful and theologically useful, which shapes souls but which is also engaged in the production of texts. It focuses on Greek writers, especially the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nysa) and John Chrysostom, all of whom were trained in rhetoric. Through a detailed examination of their use of two particular literary techniques--ekphrasis and prosōpopoeia--it shows how they adapt and experiment with them, in order to make theological arguments and in order to evoke a response from their readership.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780198848837
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198848838
Udg. Dato:
1 okt 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
1 okt 2020
Forfatter(e):
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