Predigende Bilder
Was die Homiletik von Kunstwerken lernen kann
edited by Jan Hermelink and David Pluss
Paperback (Out of print)
(September 2017)
ISBN: 9783374051328
5.75 x 8.46 inches
Price: $31.00
On back order
Even though the reformation criticised the practice of using images in the name of the Scripture, it absolutely did use visual language as well as ‘real images’ for spreading the evangelical faith. In the modern age, people are still aware: Images are able to preach, and they actually often intend to preach: they comfort and confuse, they promise and threaten, and they always do this with real gentleness. On the one hand Gerhard Richter’s stained-glass window in the Cologne Cathedral, Jesus blessing people on a poster in a railway station, and on the other hand the picture of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York – these are only a few, but extreme examples for preaching images in the present. In this book, art and church historians, artists and theoreticians of images, as well as theologians explore the preaching aspect of images, and answer the question: What can homiletics, what can ‘a common sermon’ learn from preaching images, which affect us deeply and move us again and again?
Even though the reformation criticised the practice of using images in the name of the Scripture, it absolutely did use visual language as well as ‘real images’ for spreading the evangelical faith. In the modern age, people are still aware: Images are able to preach, and they actually often intend to preach: they comfort and confuse, they promise and threaten, and they always do this with real gentleness. On the one hand Gerhard Richter’s stained-glass window in the Cologne Cathedral, Jesus blessing people on a poster in a railway station, and on the other hand the picture of the destroyed Twin Towers in New York – these are only a few, but extreme examples for preaching images in the present. In this book, art and church historians, artists and theoreticians of images, as well as theologians explore the preaching aspect of images, and answer the question: What can homiletics, what can ‘a common sermon’ learn from preaching images, which affect us deeply and move us again and again?
- Edited by Jan Hermelink
- Edited by David Plüss
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