The Symbolism of the Christian Temple

The Symbolism of the Christian Temple
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Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 1621386163
ISBN-13 : 9781621386162
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Book Synopsis The Symbolism of the Christian Temple by : Jean Hani

Download or read book The Symbolism of the Christian Temple written by Jean Hani and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That sacred art scarcely exists today is all too clear. We can perhaps speak of a "religious," but certainly not a sacred art. True sacred art is not sentimental or psychological, but ontological and cosmological in nature. Sacred art cannot be the result of the feelings, fantasies, or even "thought" of the artist-as with most modern art-but rather the translation of a reality largely surpassing the limits of human individuality. Sacred art is precisely a supra-human art. The temple of former times was an "instrument" of recollection, joy, sacrifice, and exaltation. First through the harmonious combination of a thousand crafted symbols, then by offering itself as a receptacle to the symbols of the liturgy. For the temple and the liturgy together constitute a prodigious formula capable of preparing man to become aware of the descent of Grace, of the epiphany of the Spirit in corporeity. It is a matter of urgency, then, to recall what is true in sacred art, especially since in the cultural wasteland of our age signs of resistance to its anarchy and subversion manifest themselves, and a pressing call is felt to recover the traditional conceptions that must form the basis and condition of any restoration.


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