2017
DOI: 10.29302/ar.2017.suplim.1.24
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The “Hesycastic” Mandorla: Apophatic Art and Hesychast Theology

Abstract: In this study we will try to present the iconographic tradition as a form of visual theology, though it is difficult to conceptualize what it like to be in the immediate presence of God. The Transfiguration is one of the keys that can unlock the mystery of our eschatological fate, glorified body and the participation in the energies of God. All the ascetics who had the experience of the uncreated light or were transfigured themselves describe it in very similar way and connect it with the Transfiguration of Ch… Show more

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