Иконата в религиозното образование: традиции и съвременност
The Icon in Religious Education: Traditions and Modernity

Author(s): Tatyana Ivanova
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Theology and Religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, History of Art
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Orthodoxy; icon; religious education; traditions; modernity
Summary/Abstract: The Orthodox Icon is an indivisible part of Orthodoxy today. Already in ancient times, it appeared in Christianity to show „what the Church believes“. As well as the icons are/were mediators of the prayers of the believers they were also used as a visual catechism – to clarify the Christian faith, to educate Christian values, to reveal the path to salvation. Today, in the multicultural and multireligious Europe, the icon is a symbol of the Orthodoxy and its defender. The holy images are an antipod of the dissipating effect of the mass media. In religion classes, the icon affects both the rational level by the narrative and the clarification, as well as the spiritual level. Through its symbolic language, schema and specificity, the icon helps prayer rise to the eternal and the celestial, becomes the meeting place between the material and the spiritual.

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