Myth, Allegory, and Faith

Myth, Allegory, and Faith PDF Author: Bernard Barryte
Publisher: Silvana
ISBN: 9788836630882
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, February 10/May 16, 2016."

Myth, Allegory, and Faith

Myth, Allegory, and Faith PDF Author: Bernard Barryte
Publisher: Silvana
ISBN: 9788836630882
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, February 10/May 16, 2016."

More Than Allegory

More Than Allegory PDF Author: Bernardo Kastrup
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1785352881
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief, respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to convey a more nuanced and complete understanding of the many facets of transcendence. Part I puts forward the controversial notion that many religious myths are actually true; and not just allegorically so. Part II argues that our own inner storytelling plays a surprising role in creating the seeming concreteness of things and the tangibility of history. Part III suggests, in the form of a myth, how deeply ingrained belief systems create the world we live in. The three themes, myth, truth and belief, flow into and interpenetrate each other throughout the book.

Myth, Allegory, and Gospel

Myth, Allegory, and Gospel PDF Author: Edmund Fuller
Publisher: Canadian Institute for Law, Theology, and Public Policy Incorporated
ISBN: 9781896363110
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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How Philosophers Saved Myths

How Philosophers Saved Myths PDF Author: Luc Brisson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226075389
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.

The Anatomy of Myth

The Anatomy of Myth PDF Author: Michael W. Herren
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019060669X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic philosophers to the Neoplatonists and their adoption by the Church Fathers.

Myth and Scripture

Myth and Scripture PDF Author: Dexter E. Callender, Jr.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN: 1589839625
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" html meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" body An interdisciplinary collection for scholars and students interested in the connections between myth and scripture In this collection scholars suggest that using “myth” creates a framework within which to set biblical writings in both cultural and literary comparative contexts. Reading biblical accounts alongside the religious narratives of other ancient civilizations reveals what is commonplace and shared among them. The fruit of such work widens and enriches our understanding of the nature and character of biblical texts, and the results provide fresh evidence for how biblical writings became “scripture.” Features: Essays that explore how myth sheds light on the emergence of scripture Examples drawn from the Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Greco-Roman world Articles by experts from a range of disciplines

Renaissance Impressions

Renaissance Impressions PDF Author: Bernard Barryte
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
ISBN: 9788836647033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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A rich compendium of masterworks from the golden age of printmaking In the 1500s, the printed image functioned as a tool for storytelling. In addition to being vehicles for Christian subjects, engravings, etchings and woodcuts introduced many Europeans to the myths and aesthetics of Greco-Roman antiquity. These innovative printmaking technologies ensured the widespread distribution of figural motifs that fueled the development of Mannerism, which became the dominant style of the Late Renaissance. Mannerism privileged theatrical effects, a unique ideal of beauty and a collapsed perspective, characteristics that especially lent themselves to print reproduction. Renaissance Impressions offers a rich survey of this golden age of printmaking through a selection of works from the Kirk Edward Long Collection, one of the world's most extensive private collections of 16th-century prints, with pieces by Michelangelo, Raphael and others.

The Double Vision

The Double Vision PDF Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802068651
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The Double Vision originated in lectures delivered at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto, the texts of which were revised and augmented.

True Myth

True Myth PDF Author: James W Menzies
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 071884341X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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True Myth examines the meaning and significance of myth as understood by C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell and its place in the Christian faith in a technological society. C.S. Lewis defined Christianity, and being truly human, as a relationship between thepersonal Creator and his creation mediated through faith in his son, Jesus. The influential writer and mythologist Joseph Campbell had a different perspective, understanding Christianity as composed of mythical themes similar to those in other religious and secular myths. While accepting certain portions of the biblical record as historical, Campbell taught the theological and miraculous aspects as symbolic - as stories in which the reader discovers what it means to be human today. In contrast, Lewis presented the theological and the miraculous in a literal way. Although Lewis understood how one could see symbolism and lessons for life in miraculous events, he believed they were more than symbolic and indeed took place in human history. In True Myth, James W. Menzies skilfully balances the two writers' differing approaches to guide the reader through a complex interaction of myth with philosophy, media, ethics, history, literature, art, music and religion in a contemporary world.

Mysteriously Meant

Mysteriously Meant PDF Author: Don Cameron Allen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421435284
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Originally published in 1971. In Mysteriously Meant, Professor Allen maps the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance as he explains the discovery of an allegorical interpretation of Greek, Latin, and finally Egyptian myths and the effect this discovery had on the development of modern attitudes toward myth. He believes that to understand Renaissance literature one must understand the interpretations of classical myth known to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In unraveling the elusive strands of myth, allegory, and symbol from the fabric of Renaissance literature such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Allen is a helpful guide. His discussion of Renaissance authors is as authoritative as it is inclusive. His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively—a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.