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Iconic Life: Baptism & Music

Iconic Life: Baptism & Music. Humanity… is God’s Image. “If” we are created in the image of God… then we are all called to realize our likeness to God.

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Iconic Life: Baptism & Music

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  1. Iconic Life:Baptism & Music

  2. Humanity…is God’s Image • “If” we are created in the image of God… then we are all called to realize our likeness to God. • To be in the image of God is to have the possibility of acquiring the divine likeness, in other words, it is our dynamic/divine task to accomplish.

  3. Our Dynamic/Divine Task…begins with Holy Baptism “Just as painters clearly establish the resemblance of the portrait to the model by first tracing the outline in one color, then filing it in little by little with different colors…so also in baptism, the grace of God begins to remake the image to what it was when man came into existence. Then, when we begin to strive with all our will towards the beauty of the likeness…divine grace makes virtue flourish upon virtue, elevating the beauty of the soul from glory to glory, bestowing upon it the mark of likeness” Diadochusof Photice (5th Century)

  4. Baptism…ScripturalMeanings • Forgiveness of sins and the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38) • New birth through water and the Holy Spirit (John 3:5; Titus 3:5-7) • Putting off the “old nature” and “putting on the new,” that is, “being clothed in the righteousness of Christ” (Galatians 3:27; Colossians 3:9-10) • Initiation into the “one body” of the Christian community (1 Corinthians 12:13; Acts 2:42) • Washing, sanctification, and justification in Christ and the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:11) • Enlightenment (Hebrews 6:4; 10:32; 1 Peter 2:9) • “Anointing” and/or “sealing” or “marking” as belonging to God and His people (2 Corinthians 1:21-22; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; Revelations 7:3) • Being joined to Christ by participating in his death, burial and resurrection (Romans 6:3-11; Colossians 2:12-15).

  5. John of Damascus, 8th Century …on Matthew 13:16-17 “Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” Blessed are the eyes of the… BAPTIZED for they see… ICONS and the ears of the… BAPTIZED for they hear… HYMNOGRAPHY

  6. Christian Iconography • The term derives from the Greek word “Eikon”, meaning “image” or “portrait.” • Used for representations of Christ, the Virgin, a saint, an angel or an event from sacred history. • The icon must correspond to sacred texts which are absolute and concrete reality, rather than simply poetic image or allegory. Image of Jesus Christ from the 5th Century Monastery of St. Katherine, Mount Sinai

  7. Early Christian Hymnography • Influenced by and modeled on Synagogue worship - psalmody, processional songs, & the alleluias • Influenced by and modeled on Hellenistic pagan poetry – rhythm, meter... • Council of Braga (563) - all hymns not based on Scripture were to be excluded from use in liturgical services. • Hymns were meant to reflect the songs of angels expressing Truth of the Triune God (singing theology).

  8. Byzantine Iconographers & Hymnographers • Inspiration for the Byzantine painter and hymn-writer came from minds directed toward the Divine through prayer, fasting, almsgiving, repentance and immersion in the Church. • Byzantine iconography and hymnography were the artisticexpression of theology, translated, through colorful style, rich in images and bold similes, with sensitivity to structural balance into the sphere of religious emotion.

  9. Anthony the Great, 4th Century • The purity of man’s heart is disturbed by the disordered movement of images which enter and leave by the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, as well as the spoken word.” • In other words… The hearts of the baptized (and those yet to be initiated by water and spirit) are affected by distorted images – icons, individuals, and hymns – that are seen and heard.

  10. For nobody would fail to call a gathering church, where there are psalms, and prayers and dances of the prophets, and God-loving thoughts In the singers…No charge will be made against anybody for the way he sings, whether he be old or young, hoarse, or even lacking rhythm. What is required [to be an artist within the church] is an uplifted soul, a watchful mind, a contrite heart, a powerful reasoning, a purified conscience. If you enter the holy choir of God possessing these, you will be able to stand next to David. John Chrysostom (4th Century)

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