Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. By Robin Margaret Jensen. Pp. xviii + 234. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004. isbn 0 8006 6092 7 and 3678 3. Paper 20
Many questions are raised by visual art, since images are inevitably ambiguous. Portraits are a particular kind of problematic image, and this is especially true of the images of the early church. This book sets out to consider the question of early Christian portraiture. The representations examine...
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 758-760 |
Review of: | Face to face (Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, 2005) (Charles-Murray, Mary)
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