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Index
Coverpage
Titlepage
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Icons in the Eastern Tradition
What Is an Icon?
Painting an Icon
Canonical Guidelines
The Iconographer
Historical Development of the Icon
Iconoclasm
Icons in Liturgy and Life
Chapter 2: Images and the Western Church
Artistic Exchange between the East and West
Western Devotional Art
The Indulgenced Image
Remembering Death: Memento Mori Images
Sacred Portraits and Meditation
Miracles, Relics, and Ex Voto Offerings
Images and Access to the Sacred
Western Regulation of Images
Chapter 3: Vatican II’s “Noble Simplicity”: Icons, Images, and the Roman Church Today
Catholicism and “Bad Art”
Raising the Standards: The Liturgical Movement
Vatican II and Subsequent Guidelines for Church Art
Implementation and Its Effects: What Was Found and What Was Lost
Icons in the Wake of Vatican II
Sacramentality and Orientation in the Roman Church
Chapter 4: Engaging the East: A Western Defense of Icons
Returning to the East: Primary Arguments for “Presence” in Icons
The Icon in Western Terms: Presence and Sacramentality
Engaging the East: Western Affirmation of Veneration Due Icons
Veneration of Icons in the West Today
Chapter 5: Possible Directions for Increased Western Use of Icons
Keeping Categories Clear: Liturgical, Devotional, and Historical Art
The Icon as Liturgical Image
Icons as Devotional Images
Icons as Historical Images
Integrating Icons amid Other Kinds of Sacred Art
Icons and Catechesis
Chapter 6: Ecumenical Implications
Catholic Use of Icons and Relations with the Orthodox Church
Catholic Use of Icons and Relations with Protestants
Iconography and Ecumenical Dialogue
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Photo Credits
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