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Author Chidester, David.

Title Word and light : seeing, hearing, and religious discourse / David Chidester.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1992]
©1992

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  210.14 C533W    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 168 pages ; 24 cm
Contents pt. 1. Perception and Religious Discourse -- 1. Perception -- Seeing and Hearing -- The Phenomenology of Perception -- Synesthesia -- 2. Religious Discourse -- Body Symbolism -- Philo: Seeing the Voice on Sinai -- Nicaea: Word against Light -- pt. 2. Augustine and the Augustinian Tradition -- 3. Symbol -- Perception, Memory Language -- Visual and Verbal Models -- Seeing, Hearing, Synesthesia -- 4. Myth -- Narrative Structure -- Perversion of Word and Light -- Conversion of Word and Light -- 5. Ritual -- The Ritual of Learning -- Word and Light in Creation -- Word and Light in Education -- 6. Tradition -- The Augustinian Tradition -- Bonaventure: The Primacy of the Light -- Melanchthon: The Primacy of the Word -- Conclusion -- Lost Horizon -- Seeing and Hearing -- Synesthesia -- New Horizons.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-162) and index.
Subject Language and languages -- Religious aspects.
Vision -- Religious aspects.
Hearing -- Religious aspects.
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Influence.
Indexed Term Religious discourse
ISBN 025201863X alkaline paper
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