Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture

by Margaret R. Miles

Overview

Miles's pathbreaking work shows how art and architecture have shaped religious understanding throughout the history of Christianity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725217539
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	09/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	51 MB
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About the Author

Margaret R. Miles was Bussey Professor of Historical Theology at the Harvard University Divinity School. She is the author of Augustine on the Body, Desire and Delight, Fullness of Life, Carnal Knowing, and Practicing Christianity.
Margaret R. Miles is emerita professor of historical theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Her books include Reading Augustine on Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation (2021), The Long Goodbye (2017), Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter (2011), A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750 (2008), and The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (2005).