CÂTEVA PRECIZĂRI ASUPRA IMAGINILOR CREȘTINE DIN SECOLELE II-IV
A FEW CLARIFICATIONS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN IMAGES OF THE II AND IV CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: In this study, i presented a short history of primary christian images, an analysis of the pagan-christian controversy about idols and idolatry. At the final part of the study i exposed and exemplified some of the concepts thought by the intelectuals from that time about the importance of images in spreading the christian ideology and attracting believers. In this dispute between christians and non-christians, the idols and idolatry represented the number one cause of disagreement which marked the history, philosophy and arts in the late aniquity. I mentioned the fact that the presence of the christian images is signaled by the documented witnesses discovered by archeologists in the late secound century and especially in third and fourth centuries in teritories of the former Roman Empire.I also observed the influence of the oriental arts to the latin-greek arts from which the christianism adopted plastic forms, images and representations which coresponded to the new beliefs.

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