Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church, With Other Contemporary Saints (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Lives and Legends of the Great Hermits and Fathers of the Church, With Other Contemporary Saints The present volume deals with a deeply interesting period of the history alike of the Church and of Christian art, for between 300 and 700 A.D. a complete revolution took place in the attitude of the world towards Christianity; a revolution reflected in every branch of culture, but especially in literature, painting, sculpture, and architecture. During the fourth century many hundreds of martyrs were sacrificed to the blind fury of the heathen, with the result that more canonized saints belong to it than to any other period. In the seventh, on the other hand, when the death penalty was inflicted, it was generally by the Christians themselves as a punishment for heresy. In the fourth century the art which was most thoroughly imbued with the Christian spirit was, strange to say, still strictly classic in form, for it was rather by the transubstantiation of heathen ideas than the introduction of new ones that the radical change taking place amongst all classes of the community was illustrated. The Christians, surrounded as they were on every side by enemies, had at first no time for the evolution of original art-forms, and gladly availed themselves of those already in use, selecting, of course, such as were best suited to bear a new and more spiritual significance. Early Christian art was, indeed, until some time after the conversion of Constantine, practised solely for the sake of doing honour to the dead, and nearly all the examples of it which have been preserved to the present day, are the frescoes and sculptures of the catacombs and of some few sarcophagi from elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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