{"id":410,"date":"2012-05-23T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanderbiltvrc.wordpress.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-05-23T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T15:37:03","slug":"robin-jensen-examines-baptismal-imagery-in-early-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2012\/05\/robin-jensen-examines-baptismal-imagery-in-early-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Jensen Examines Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vanderbiltvrc.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/23\/robin-jensen-examines-baptismal-imagery-in-early-christianity\/baptismalimagery\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2012\/05\/baptismalimagery.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" title=\"baptismalimagery\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-413\" \/><\/a>What does early Christian imagery reveal about the theological meaning of baptism? Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor&#8217;s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, addresses this theme in her latest book, <em>Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual and Theological Dimensions<\/em> (Baker Academic, 2012). Jensen illumines the theological meaning of baptism by examining the multiple dimensions of the early Christian baptismal rite. <\/p>\n<p>Jensen explores five principal motifs for understanding baptism&#8212;as cleansing from sin, sickness, and Satan; as incorporation into the community; as sanctifying and illuminative; as death and regeneration; and as the beginning of the New Creation&#8212;demonstrating how visual images, poetic language, architectural space, and symbolic actions signify and convey the theological meaning of this ritual practice. <\/p>\n<p>In her richly illustrated volume, with many of the images photographed by the author, Jensen &#8220;has taken the vast and varied array of treasures comprising early Christian baptism and organized them into a theologically enlightening exhibit, leading the reader through a series of &#8216;rooms&#8217; through which one may marvel at the rich and varied elements comprising the sacramental whole,&#8221; wrote Bruce T. Morrill, S.J., professor of theological studies at Vanderbilt.   <em>~Fay<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does early Christian imagery reveal about the theological meaning of baptism? Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor&#8217;s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, addresses this theme in her latest book, Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual and Theological Dimensions (Baker Academic, 2012). Jensen illumines the theological meaning of baptism by examining the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}