http://www.clarionreview.org A JOURNAL FOR LIFE IN THE BODY Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.clarionreview.org/2009/10/the-iconographic-fiction-and-christian-humanism-of-flannery-oconnor/ http://www.clarionreview.org/2009/10/the-iconographic-fiction-and-christian-humanism-of-flannery-oconnor/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:03:58 +0000 Benjamin Price http://www.clarionreview.org/blog/?p=203 Vigen Guroian “What the word says, the image shows silently; what we have heard, we have seen.” That is how the Seventh Great Ecumenical Council, held at Constantinople in 787, summarized its defense of the use of icons in Christian worship. What the council confessed to have heard from scripture and to believe, is that God became man in Jesus Christ. According to the Gospel of John “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:13–14). Through an act of unfathomable kenosis, the infinite had become finite, the uncircumscribable was circumscribed in a human being, and the invisible was made visible.]]> http://www.clarionreview.org/2009/10/the-iconographic-fiction-and-christian-humanism-of-flannery-oconnor/feed/ 1