The invisible God : the earliest Christians on art / Paul Corby Finney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finney, Paul Corby, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian art and symbolism--To 500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Christianity and culture.

God--Knowableness--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

God.

Art, Early Christian.

Fathers of the church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; 1 The History of Interpretation; 2 The Apologists' Attack on Greek Art: History and Literature; 3 The Content of the Attack on Greek Art; 4 The Emperor's Image; 5 Christianity Before 200: Invisibility and Adaptation; 6 The Earliest Christian Art; 7 Invisible Divinity and Visible Religion; Selected Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773964-4

1-280-44341-3

9786610443413

0-19-535956-9

1-4237-5854-4

OCLC:

476013686