A systematic theological comparison of religious iconography : referring to Groeber and Kinkade

dc.contributor.authorVan Rooyen, J.A. (Johan)
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-10T11:33:59Z
dc.date.available2024-07-10T11:33:59Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-14
dc.descriptionDATA AVAILABILITY : Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.en_US
dc.descriptionSpecial Collection: Johan Buitendag Festschrift, sub-edited by Andries van Aarde (University of Pretoria, South Africa).en_US
dc.descriptionThis research is part of the research project ‘Understanding Reality (Theology and Nature)’, directed by Prof. Dr Johan Buitendag, Department of Systematic and Historical Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria.en_US
dc.description.abstractIconography and symbolism of religion, correspondingly, are vital and convoluted aesthetic patterns and kinetics in a well-used foundational manner to transcend religious theories and the optical, audible and gesture depictions of religious intelligence with narratives. Iconography and symbolism of religion gain autonomy from all world religions. Subsequently, during the 20th centennial, a few academics emphasized the significance of religious spirit to persuade in citing religion as a rational entity. The symbolic condition of religion is alike viewed by a few academics of mythos and psyche as essential idiosyncratic with a religious explanation. Academics from provisional religionists, developmentalists and psychiatrists harvested with explanation the vast plethora of data on the emphasised views within religion, notably within association with East as well as Western religions. In the new liturgical theology of Christian formalities, additional appraisal of religiously emphasised syntax has transpired. CONTRIBUTION : In this article, kinetics of symbols and visuals that are presented in a specific pattern and tenacious accord to the structure, subject matter and motives of the proposal are proclaimed to be among the most profound ways of experiencing and articulating religious details. Such patterns, as I think Prof. Johan Buitendag would agree, also add to the care and reinforced accords between sapiens3 with its domain that is revered or divine transcendental, metaphysical magnitude. That is what this article is about!en_US
dc.description.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethicsen_US
dc.description.librarianam2024en_US
dc.description.sdgNoneen_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen_US
dc.identifier.citationVan Rooyen, J.A., 2023, ‘A systematic theological comparison of religious iconography: referring to Groeber and Kinkade’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(2), a8331. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v79i2.8331.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v79i2.8331
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/96913
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSISen_US
dc.rights© 2023. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_US
dc.subjectSymbolismen_US
dc.subjectIconographyen_US
dc.subjectSemanticsen_US
dc.subjectSemioticsen_US
dc.subjectGroeber and Kinkadeen_US
dc.titleA systematic theological comparison of religious iconography : referring to Groeber and Kinkadeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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