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Chapter 7 - Performance

The Icon and Liturgy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2023

Stephanie Rumpza
Preface by
Jean-Luc Marion
Stephanie Rumpza
Affiliation:
Sorbonne Université, Paris
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Summary

The icon, like all artworks, enacts an aesthetic transformation of the world, which is structured by the community, space, and time of those who engage with it. As the use of icons in church architecture suggests, these worldly dimensions are also transfigured in an eschatological way when the icon is taken up in the liturgy, joining in the community of saints centered around Christ. As the iconostasis helps illustrate, the eventual result is a “transfiguration of the gaze” which transforms the entire world of experience, making every finite thing a site of potential “iconic mediation.”

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liturgical timeliturgical spaceeschatological identityintercessioncommunion of saintsimage of Godiconostasisicon and Eucharisttransfiguration of the gazeisomorphic collapse
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Phenomenology of the Icon
Mediating God through the Image
 , pp. 217 - 245
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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