Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God Through the Image

by Stephanie Rumpza

How can something finite mediate an infinite God? Weaving patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-George Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, Stephanie Rumpza proposes a new answer to this paradox by offering a fresh and original approach to the Byzantine icon. She demonstrates the power and relevance of the phenomenological method to integrate hermeneutic aesthetics and divine transcendence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100931792X
• ISBN13: 9781009317924
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"