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Inspired by a conference that took place in January 2005 in Leuvan and Louvain-la-Neuve, these 38 papers focus on the relationship between Christian sacred discourse and images, exploring the problematic combination of text and image at spiritual, theological, didactic, moral and political levels. General topics include historical and methodological issues in the study of emblems and spiritual images, the exegesis of two central symbols systems in Christianity (the Scriptures and creation), the image in absentia (in which the iconoclastic image contains conflict), the rhetoric and poetics of the image, and the use of figures in determines contexts, such as those which are staged or incarnated, those in which figures support polemics, and those which are "efficient," or most understandable from the nineteenth century onward. Distributed in North American by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
