Manipulating Theophany

Description:

"Using light as fil rouge reuniting theology and ritual with the architecture, decoration, and iconography of cultic spaces, the present study argues that the mise-en-scène of fifth-century baptism and sixth-century episcopal liturgy was meant to reproduce the luminous atmosphere of heaven. Analysing the material culture of the two sacraments against common ritual expectations and Christian theology, we evince the manner in which the luminous effect was reached through a combination of constructive techniques and perceptual manipulation. One nocturnal and one diurnal, the two ceremonials represented different scenarios, testifying to the capacity of church builders and willingness of Late Antique bishops to stage the ritual experience in order to offer God to the senses."--

subjects: Experience (religion),  Baptists, history,  Liturgies, early christian,  Worship,  History,  Early Christian Liturgies,  Baptism,  Liturgy and architecture,  Light in architecture,  Light,  Christianity,  Church history,  Early church,  Religious aspects,  National Bibliography,  Biological Products,  Cell Membrane,  Metabolism,  Analytical Chemistry Techniques,  Organic Chemistry,  Energy Metabolism,  Physiology,  Invertebrates,  Literature,  Mitochondria,  Neurophysiology,  Registries,  Arteries,  Physiopathology,  Biomedical Engineering,  Methods,  Communicable Diseases,  Epidemiology,  Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy,  Ayurvedic Medicine,  Chinese Traditional Medicine,  Medicinal Plants,  Public Health,  Cardiovascular Diseases,  Etiology,  Analytic Chemistry,  Hemodynamics,  History, 20th Century,  Hypertension,  Complications,  Ions,  Chemistry,  Phytotherapy,  Population Surveillance,  Social Conditions,  Electronic Transistors