Symbolism and Realism in Post-Nicene Representations of the Eucharist
Even after Constantine, at the beginning of the fourth century, had laid upon the Church, henceforth no longer a cult suspected of disloyalty and liable to persecution, the duty of acting as the cement which should bind together the threatened Empire, the verities of the Faith were customarily decla...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1957
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1957, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-16 |
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| Summary: | Even after Constantine, at the beginning of the fourth century, had laid upon the Church, henceforth no longer a cult suspected of disloyalty and liable to persecution, the duty of acting as the cement which should bind together the threatened Empire, the verities of the Faith were customarily declared in Christian art as much by symbolic allusion as by representations of a fully descriptive character. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046900068883 |