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Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts - Incarnation, Initiation, Institution (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts - Incarnation, Initiation, Institution (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the
medieval Christian. Baptism marked the entrance of the faithful
into the right relation, with the Catholic Church representing the
main cultural institution of medieval society. In the period
between ca. 1050 and ca. 1220, the decoration of the font often had
an important function: to underscore the theology of baptism in the
context of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. This period
witnessed a surge of concern about sacraments. Just as religious
thinkers attempted to delineate the sacraments and define their
function in sermons and Sentence collections, sculptural programs
visualized the teaching of orthodox ideas for the lay audience.
This book looks at three areas of primary concern around baptism as
a sacrament - incarnation, initiation, and the practice of baptism
within the institution of the Church - and the images that embody
that religious discussion. Baptismal fonts have been recognized as
part of the stylistic production of the Romanesque period, and
their iconography has been generally explored as moral and
didactic. Here, the message of these fonts is set within a very
specific history of medieval Catholic sacramental theology,
connecting erudite thinkers and lay users through their decoration
and use.
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