'Heaven and earth in little space': the foetal existence of Christ in medieval literature and thought.(Critical essay)

From: Medium Aevum | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Tasioulas, Jacqueline | Copyright information

Christ in his humanity, God made Man, was, without doubt, the central focus of artistic endeavour in the later Middle Ages. Images of the holy infant, beatific in his vulnerability, or of Christ's Passion, are ubiquitous, and testimony to the late medieval preoccupation with the human body of God. The fundamental theological tenet was that Christ was wholly divine and also wholly human. It should be noted, however, that God made Man was, in the course of several centuries, also mad...

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