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Gazing on God: Trinity, Church and Salvation in Orthodox Thought and Iconography
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An exposition of Orthodox systematic theology, Gazing on God is written from the point of view of the experience of the faithful, drawing on traditional icons and liturgy.

By tracing the depth of some key Christian concepts —salvation, Logos, the Trinity— Andreas Andreopoulos provides a framework for the theology of experience. In the following chapters seven select icons are analyzed, in order to demonstrate the theological ideas and themes that may be revealed by studying Christianity through iconography. The analysis touches on topics such as time (the eternity of God, ‘flat’ liturgical time), space, the Church as the Body of Christ, and the Trinity.

Gazing on God offers to all Christian traditions a demonstration that, while our understanding of the development of Christian views and attitudes is guided by the history of theological ideas, Christianity includes from the beginning a strong dimension of meta-linguistic knowledge, which is expressed in its liturgy, as well as in its symbolism.
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Release dateDec 26, 2013
ISBN9780227902509
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Gazing on God: Trinity, Church and Salvation in Orthodox Thought and Iconography
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Andreas Andreopoulos

Revd Dr Andreas Andreopoulos is Reader in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Winchester. He has taught in universities in the UK, Canada and the USA. He has published numerous articles and several books such as 'Metamorphosis: The Transfiguration in Byzantine Theology and Iconography' (2005), 'The Sign of the Cross: the Gesture, the Mystery, the History' (2006), and 'This is my Beloved Son: the Transfiguration of Christ' (2012).

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