Jaime Rall is a student in the “Sacred Arts Concentration.” In this essay—assigned for a class on 20th century theologians—she lets theology and iconography illuminate one another, to the enrichment of both.
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John Capones is a first-year MDiv student. In this post he shows how the icon of the Anastasis can help structure a homily and inspire its content. He also reveals the icon’s participatory nature by including invitations to the faithful to imagine themselves as the characters represented in it. Indeed, John offers a perfect example of the marriage of the verbal and the visual.
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Elizabeth Bouteneff joined St Vladimir’s as a special student in the Fall of 2020. Her interest in art history and her love for icons, led her to an heirloom of sorts—a small icon with the Virgin and Child which belonged to her grandmother. Elizabeth’s offering is an invitation to experience the materiality of the icon as an inevitable and important conduit for its spiritual messages.
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Matthew Poozhikunnel is an MDiv student from the Malankara Orthodox Church. Here he offers a meditation on a small icon of St Anthony painted in the Coptic style and demonstrates how its visual aspects allow the viewer to relate the image to the saint’s vita while furthering his or her understanding of asceticism and its role in the lives of Orthodox Christians.
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