{"product_id":"the-iconic-imagination-douglas-hedley-9781441194633","title":"The Iconic Imagination","description":"Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. Douglas Hedley argues that religious ideas can be presented in a sensory form, especially in aesthetic works. Drawing explicitly on a Platonic metaphysics of the image as a bearer of transcendence, \u003ci\u003eThe Iconic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e shows the singular capacity and power of images to represent the transcendent in the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. In opposition to cold abstraction and narrow asceticism, Hedley shows that the image furnishes a vision of the eternal through the visible and temporal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas Hedley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1441194630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781441194633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Douglas Hedley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072961245439,"sku":"9781441194633","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2dd8fc1e-c259-42f4-a2dd-3bd2bcb3aabe.jpg?v=1685444970","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-iconic-imagination-douglas-hedley-9781441194633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}