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From the earliest period of its existence, Christianity has been recognized as the "religion of the cross." Some of the great monuments of Western art are representations of the brutal torture and execution of Christ. Despite the horror of Crucifixion, we often find such images beautiful. The beauty of the cross expresses the central paradox of Christian faith: the cross of Christ's execution is the symbol of God's victory over death and sin. The cross as an aesthetic object and as a means of devotion corresponds to the mystery of God's wisdom and power manifest in suffering and apparent failure. In this volume Richard Viladesau seeks to understand the beauty of the cross as it developed in both theology and art from their beginnings until the eve of the renaissance. He argues that art and symbolism functioned as an alternative strand of theological expression-sometimes parallel to, sometimes interwoven with, and sometimes in tension with formal theological reflection on the meaning of the Crucifixion and its role in salvation history. Using specific works of art to epitomize particular artistic and theological paradigms, Viladesau then explores the contours of each paradigm through the works of representative theologians as well as liturgical, poetic, artistic, and musical sources. The beauty of the cross is examined from Patristic theology and the earliest representations of the Logos on the cross, to the monastic theology of victory and the Romanesque crucified "majesty," to the Anselmian "revolution" that centered theological and artistic attention on the suffering humanity of Jesus, and finally to the breakdown of the high scholastic theology of the redemption in empirically concentrated nominalism and the beginnings of naturalism in art. By examining the relationship between aesthetic and conceptual theology, Viladesau deepens our understanding of the foremost symbol of Christianity. This volume makes an important contribution to an emerging field, breaking

Christian religion --- Iconography --- Jesus Christ --- Art [Christian ] --- Art [Eclesiastical ] --- Art chrétien --- Art ecclésiastique --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Art religieux chrétien --- Art sacré --- Arts in the Church --- Calvaires --- Calvariebergen --- Cavalries --- Christelijke iconografie --- Christelijke kunst en symboliek --- Christelijke symboliek --- Christian art and symbolism --- Christian symbolism --- Croix --- Crosses --- Crucifix --- Cruxifixen --- Ecclesiastical art --- Godsdienstige kunst [Christelijke ] --- Iconografie [Christelijke ] --- Iconographie chrétienne --- Kerkelijke kunst --- Kruisbeelden --- Kruisen --- Kunst [Christelijke ] --- Kunst [Godsdienstige ] [Christelijke ] --- Kunst [Kerkelijke ] --- Kunst [Sacrale ] --- Religious art [Christian ] --- Sacrale kunst --- Sacred art --- Symboliek [Christelijke ] --- Symbolisme chrétien --- Crosses. --- Crosses in art. --- Christian art and symbolism. --- 75.046.3 --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Religious art, Christian --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Art --- Symbolism --- Christian antiquities --- Church decoration and ornament --- Calvaries --- Crucifixes --- Roods --- Signs and symbols --- Crucifixion --- Religie in de schilderkunst. Heiligenbeelden --- -Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Jezus --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- عيسىٰ --- Passion. --- Atherosclerosis in children --- Arteriosclerosis --- Adolescent. --- Child. --- Risk Factors. --- Prevention. --- Risk factors. --- epidemiology. --- prevention & control. --- -Passion. --- 75.046.3 Religie in de schilderkunst. Heiligenbeelden --- Epidemiology. --- Prevention & control. --- Religious art --- Passion --- ‏عيسىٰ‏ --- Symbolism in art --- -Jesus Christ --- Christ --- Crosses in art --- specifieke types van de gekruisigde Christus (in niet verhalende context) --- theologie --- oudheid --- middeleeuwse kunst --- renaissance --- passieverhaal, lijdensverhaal van Christus --- kruis ~ instrumenten van het Passieverhaal --- christelijke iconografie --- Christus --- specifieke types van de gekruisigde Christus (in niet verhalende context). --- theologie. --- oudheid. --- middeleeuwse kunst. --- renaissance. --- passieverhaal, lijdensverhaal van Christus. --- kruis ~ instrumenten van het Passieverhaal. --- christelijke iconografie. --- Christus.

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Scientific and technological advances allow us to manipulate genomes at the level of single genes, develop machines that will surpass the human brain in computing power and build a world of information-processing devices. This text explores what it is about these phenomena that makes us uneasy. Through evolution our brains have been wired to provide us with an inner sense of self, a feeling that each of us is a unique individual delimited by precise boundaries. We have also been wired to reproduce ourselves in a certain way. Baldi argues that this self-centered view of the world is scientifically wrong. Its past success lies in its being an adequate model during our evolutionary bootstrapping: a world without molecular biotechnology, human cloning, and the Internet. Eventually we must come to terms with the fact that genomes, computations, and mind are fluid, continuous entities, in both space and time. The boundary between the self and the world has begun to blur and ultimately may evaporate entirely. Baldi offers not predictions but an open-eyed exploration of our current state of knowledge and the possibilities that lie ahead. Throughout history, we have selected and manipulated the genomes of plants, animals, and even ourselves. Until now, however, such control could be exerted only at the level of the entire organism. Scientific and technological advances now allow us to manipulate genomes directly at the level of single genes and their constituents, with a speed and precision that far exceed what natural evolution has been able to achieve over the past 3.5 billion years. These advances open new possibilities for medicine, biotechnology, and society as a whole. We already have in vitro fertilization and animal cloning; in the future human cloning and the exploitation of embryonic stem cells, among other capabilities, may be routine. At the same time, we are developing machines that will surpass the human brain in raw computing power and building an interconnected world of information-processing devices that makes science fiction pale in comparison. In this book Baldi explores what it is about these phenomena that makes us so uneasy-the shattering of the human self as we know it.

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