refutes the common assumption that the Decalogue’s prohibition of “graven images” led to a total Jewish ban on the crafting of images. That assumption in turn has influenced a host of scholars of early Christianity who have insisted that the late development of Christian art indicates that artistic representation was foreign to the theology of the early church and that it involves a paganization of Christianity.As the commentary that accompanies the exhibit makes clear, influential early Christian authors read the Old Testament not just as a series of events in salvation history but as allegory foreshadowing the coming of Christ. Even more important here than the complex Jewish attitude toward representation is what Potts, in his foreword to the splendid catalogue for the exhibit, calls the “distinctive theological meaning” of Christian art, based on a distinctive theological claim about Christ, most succinctly encapsulated in Paul’s phrase, “Christ is the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15).There is, alas, one grave limitation to the exhibit,octopus toms for sale; it is exclusive to the Kimbell. So, if you want to see this remarkable collection,toms youth shoes sale, you will have to make your way to the DFW area sometime between now and March 30, 2008.It would certainly be worth the trip to encounter a display of such staggering scope, beauty, and theological significance. One can only hope that this art exhibit will have ramifying implications in other parts of the academic world. Instead of now tired debates about the paganization of the early church, this exhibit attends to the way in which early Christian art drew upon late Roman art and the Jewish repertory of Old Testament subjects seen as foreshadowing the life of Christ,wholesale toms shoes men. But the embrace of antecedent elements is “transformed entirely from within by its revolutionary theological message.” The exhibit succeeds remarkably well at re-focusing our attention on the “distinctive theological meanings the Early Christian artists intended to convey.”“Come and see,” is the refrain in the Gospel of John used by those who encounter Christ; that terse invitation might be said to contain an entire Christian aesthetics. As Wilken comments, Beauty is the corollary of seeing…. In the scriptures, seeing is never simply beholding something that passes like a parade before the eyes; it is a form of discernment and identification with what is known. What one sees reflects back on the one who sees and transforms the beholder. As Gregory the Great will put it centuries later, “We are changed into the one we see.”–Thomas Hibbs is distinguished professor of ethics and culture at Baylor University and author of the forthcoming book, Arts of Darkness.[标签:标题]
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