Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Encountering Traditions)
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Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Encountering Traditions)
Thus, “the moments of sensual pleasure in the idea, the voice, the instrument are made into fetishes and torn away from any functions which could give them meaning.”They exemplify what media theorist David Cecchetto, building on the work of John Durham Peters, calls “incommunication”: the process by which the impossibility of true communication cre... See more
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to enter negation is to be a minister who seeks not death but union. The transcendent mystery is that when negation—elimination of being by some force—is shared by both human and divine persons, it creates the deepest of unions. It creates a space where the Spirit moves, turning death into life, joining what is not God with God.
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No amount of the rhetoric of ‘self-transcendence’ can substitute for the recovery of the self, the self as the memory of crucifixion and crucifying: there are no dead selves discarded or buried to be the foundation-stones of new identities, because God is the God who opens our graves and gives back the past.