This is post 2 of 5 in the series “The Icon: Sign of Unity or Division?” (Continued from here) “The honor [or insult] given to an image rebounds onto the person represented.” This well-known sentence comes from a work of St. Basil the Great On the Holy Spirit 18, 45 where he talks about the relation between […]
This is post 1 of 5 in the series “The Icon: Sign of Unity or Division?” When we think about ecumenism and the problems that keep Christian Churches from healing the schisms between them, we rarely think about Christian art: neither as a bone of contention nor as a point of unity. Historically, during the […]
This is post 1 of 12 in the series “An Icon of the Kingdom of God” The liturgical art of the Orthodox Church offers the world nothing less than a vision of the Kingdom of God. There can be no higher calling for art than this. Liturgical art is the combined effort of apostles and […]
This is post 1 of 3 in the series “The Recovery of The Arts” (This post is the first of a series of three. Part 2. Part 3) We would like to welcome you to the Orthodox Arts Journal. We hope that this space will be a tribute to a skill and a form […]