Beyond the Text: Franciscan Art and the Construction of Religion

by Xavier Seubert (Editor), Oleg Bychkov (Editor)

Overview

A pioneering studo of the ar of the Franciscan order that shows how Francisan theological, liturgical, pastoral and missionary strategies were formulated and implemented visually, not by works but by images, bu using contextualizaiton and introducing gender and culture specific visual traits

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781576593592
Publisher:	The Franciscan Institute
Publication date:	08/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Xavier John Seubert, OFM, holds a doctorate in sacramental theology from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany and is a graduate of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. He was recently appointed Professor of Liturgy and Sacramental Theology at Christ the King Seminary in Buffalo, NY, and is the Thomas Plassmann Distinguished Professor of Art and Theology Emeritus at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, NY. He has also taught at The Washington Theological Union and Villanova University. His main interests are the relationship between religious symbolism and the artistic process, Franciscan and Byzantine art history and the sacraments of Christian Initiation. He has published articles in Worship, Cross Currents, New Theology Review, and The Heythrop Journal and is presently working on a book on the sacramentality of art. He is a frequent lecturer at The Cloisters of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Oleg Bychkov, PhD, is a Professor of Theology at St. Bonaventure University. He holds a PhD from the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (1999). His areas of expertise are classical languages, medieval philosophy and theology, and contemporary aesthetics. He has authored and co-edited several books, including Aesthetic Revelation (CUA Press, 2010), and published essays and encyclopedia entries on ancient, medieval and contemporary aesthetics. With Allan Wolter, OFM, he edited and translated, and Franciscan Institute Publications published, John Duns Scotus’s Examined Report of the Paris Lecture (Reportatio I-A) (Volume 1 2004 and Volume 2 2008). Bychkov was an editor of the critical edition of the John Duns Scotus Quaestiones Super Librum Elenchorum Aristotelis, worked with Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ, to edit John Duns Scotus, Philosopher: Proceedings of the Quadruple Congress on John Duns Scotus, Volume 1 and contributed to volume 2 in this series, The Opera Theologica of John Duns Scotus: The Quadruple Congress on John Duns Scotus. Along with Xavier Seubert, he is editing and contributing to the upcoming Beyond the Text: Franciscan Art and Construction of Religion