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Survey of Early Christianity
Theo 6020: Christianity in Antiquity Survey Jeffrey Wickes Office: Adorjan, 242 Office Hours: T/Th, 11:30-2 Email: jeffrey.wickes@slu.edu 6020 (01) (CRN: 13629) Time: Thursdays, 9-11:30 Location: Adorjan 245C Saint Louis University Fall, 2018 Course Description: This course surveys Christianity from its birth through the rise of Islam. On the basis of a close examination of representative sources, we will develop a portrait of the varieties of Christianity in antiquity. What were the doctrines, practices and rituals of early Christians and how did these develop over time? What contexts informed the early Christian way of life? Students will also develop a variety of research skills integral to graduate level scholarship. Assignments: A. Weekly Preparation and Participation: for each session, students will type up and submit a document briefly summarizing each of the texts read (primary and secondary). Additionally, students will write a one page argumentative essay on one of the primary texts. Due every week there is class, even if another assignment is due. Worth 20% of final grade. B. Book Review Report and Exegetical Paper. Each student will review a major work in early Christian studies. The review develops in two parts. First, students will p
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SCULPTURES
SCULPTURES
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or moulded or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. In addition, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.
Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries, large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities inc
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Franciscan at Home
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