Course MTC103 · Year I · Autumn 2024-2025

The doctrinal message of the icon for the third millennium from a perspective interdenominational

Compulsory course in Comparative Theology, taught by Maryan Stoyadinov.

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Overview

Lecturer
Maryan Stoyadinov
Seminar tutor
Maryan Stoyadinov
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Theology - Masters
Field of study
Comparative Theology
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, debate, presentation.

Aims

Interpretation of the church architecture and interior throughout theological concepts of creation and salvation;

Interpretation of the doctrine throughout sacred art.

Interpretation of the liturgical space and time throughout christian ontology

Course contents

1. Cycles in the Iconographic Programme: Lithurgical; Christological; Dogmatical – genesis and developement

2. Dogmatic cycle

3. The Entrance

4. The Icon of Christ in the niche over the Entrance of the Naos 

5. The closed and opened door of the Paradise

6. The Dome of the church

7. The Dome in the perspective of the Creator and Creation

8. The icon of Christ Pantocrator in the Dome (1)

9. The icon of Christ Pantocrator in the Dome (2

10. The icon of Christ Pantocrator in the Dome (3)

11. The icon of Theotokos in the apsida of the church (1)

12. The icon of Theorokos in the apsida of the church (2

13. The Dogmatic circle - conclussion

14. Iconology of the Dogma - conclussion

 

Learning outcomes

- Obtaining a basic knowledge about corelation between iconology and doctrine;
- Defining the concept of the sacred art as theological argument;
- Interpretation of the liturgical space and time throughout christian ontology

Assessment

Oral exam 80%, implication in seminar and course debates 20%

Recommended reading

The Meaning of Icons
LOSSKY,Vladimir, LeonidOUSPENSKY
St Vladimir’s Seminary Pr, -, 1997 · -
Theology of the Icon
OUSPENSKY, LeonidOUSPENSKY, Leonid
St Vladimir’s SeminaryPr, -, 1992 · -
The Ancestral Sin
ROMANIDES, John
trans. George S. Gabriel, Ridgwood, New Jersey: Zephyr Publications, -, 2002 · -