The Theological Aesthetics of the Image

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This course will explore primary and critical writings related to the contested role of images in philosophical theology and aesthetics, and also in some nineteenth century literature. Rather than approaching the image from the perspective of art history, our objective is to trace how, beginning in late antiquity, images have functioned and how their role has been conceptualized, first in religious practice and philosophical theology, and more recently in literature, philosophy, aesthetic theory, and phenomenology