Recently I've been making a concerted effort to cut down on the volume of email I get but one of the emails I regularly look forward to is Alan Jacob's Newsletter Snakes & Ladders. I first found out about Alan Jacob's after reading his books on: Original Sin, and Christian Humanism in the closing years … Continue reading Technopoly and Myth
Images in the Church. Part Three: Conclusion
Introduction In my first entry on the topic of image usage in the church, I looked at how the earliest generations of the Church engaged with imagery. In this, I saw what seemed an exclusively polemical treatment of images against the Paganism of the day. Moreso, a critique of the medium itself in devotional contexts. … Continue reading Images in the Church. Part Three: Conclusion
Images in the Church. Part One: On the making of images
What follows is an attempt to chart the waters on what I feel is a healthy attitude to imagery in the Church. Different traditions have varying positions on the use of images, they also have different ideas on what they think others believe on this too. Any cursory glance online on this topic will highlight … Continue reading Images in the Church. Part One: On the making of images
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