The electronic golden calf : images, religion, and the making of meaning / Gregor T. Goethals.

Author/creator Goethals, Gregor T., 1926- author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : Cowley Publications, [1990]
Copyright Date©1990
Description225 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- Visible Image and Invisible Faith -- Early Christian Rejection of Images -- Toward an Iconic Aesthetic -- Bernard of Clairvaux: The Aniconic Aesthetic -- Elements of an Aniconic Aesthetic -- Triumph of the Image -- The Protestant Challenge -- Reforming the Image -- Nature: A Source of Religious Revelation -- A Search for Essence -- Redefining Religious Art -- Art: An Individual Spiritual Odyssey -- From Icon to Commodity -- Corporate Religious Symbols -- The Electronic Golden Calf: Images of Authority in a Secular Society -- Mythic Authority: Tales of the Good Life -- Shaping Reality -- The Symbolizing Process -- Symbols of Political Authority -- Iconified Politics -- The Legacy of TV Portraiture -- Iconifying Public Religion -- The Iconofiers -- The Making of Meaning -- The Symbolic Canopy -- Persuasive Imaging -- Rejection or Transformation? -- Remaking Meanings -- Hight Art: The making of Private Meanings -- The Church and the Artist -- Artists and Theologians Meet -- Image and Faith.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Goethals, Gregor T., 1926- Electronic golden calf. Cambridge, Mass. : Cowley Publications, ©1990
LCCN 89078008
ISBN1561010073 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781561010073 (alk. paper)
ISBN1561010022 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781561010028 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BR115.A8 G64 1990 ✔ Available Place Hold