Proceedings of the 2016 3rd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2016)

Philosophers and Saints Summoned by the Same Truth 500 Years of Orthodox Iconographic Program

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Rodica Pop
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Rodica Pop
Available Online December 2016.
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10.2991/icelaic-16.2017.171How to use a DOI?
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Heathen philosophers; Christianity; murals; monasteries of Bucovina; theology
Abstract

The research takes to account a series of murals found on the walls of some monasterys in Bucovina in the north of Romania: Humor (1530), Vorone (1546) and Sucevi a (1595). Their pictures depict some Greek heathen writers and philosophers, and also Sibyls—Sages of Antiquity (Socrates, Plato, Aristotel, Pythagoras, etc.)—who are asociated with the Tree of Jesse. This idea highlights the importance of classical philosophy for the development of Eastern Christian theology. The article attempts to explain how it became possible that these philosophers living hundreds of years before Christ's incarnation, were so valued.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 3rd International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2016)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-292-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icelaic-16.2017.171How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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