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From Icon-painting to Eikonika (A Critical Analysis of the Science of Orthodox Iconology)
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Davydov Ivan (2012)
"From Icon-painting to Eikonika (A Critical Analysis of the Science of Orthodox Iconology) ",
Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Sviato-Tikhonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta.
Seriia I : Bogoslovie. Filosofiia,
2012,
vol. 40,
pp. 49-58 (in Russian).
Abstract
This article analyses the meaning ofvarious terms: eikonika, iconology, iconography, the philosophy of the icon, the theology of the icon, as well as the terms ierotopia and ierotopika. It concludes by establishing a hierarchy of disciplines relating to the study of the icon by referring to various meta-theoretical and inter-disciplinary levels of research and by assigning a place in the hierarchy of scientific disciplines to Orthodox iconology.
Keywords
ORTHODOX ICON, ICONIC SIGN, PHILOSOPHY OF THE ICON, THEOLOGY OF THE ICON, SCIENCE OF ICONS, ICONOGRAPHY, ICONOLOGY, IKONIKA, IEROTOPIA, IEROTOPIKA