This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion.

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Stewart Dippel holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. For the last twenty-five years he has taught history and political science at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas. His published dissertation and three subsequent books are on seventeenth-century religious history. The Rev. Jeffrey Champlin is an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church. He has served congregations in Connecticut, Kansas, and Arkansas. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University (1978) and Yale Divinity School (1983). For the last four years, he has served as an instructor in the Iona Project, a church-wide program to provide through Dioceses academic and pastoral formation for locally-prepared candidates for ordination.

Inhalt

Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Ways and Means - Rosie the Riveter, Norman Rockwell, and Religious Iconography - Richard Hooker and Jeremy Taylor: Iconographic Theology Exemplified - The Imaginative Quality of Experience: Resources for an Iconographic Theology - The Recovery of a Religious Vision in Nineteenth-Century Russian Art - The Iconographic Dimension of British Popular Culture Fin-de-Siecle: Plays and Painting - The Religious Experience in Russian Literature - Index.