Abstract
The experience of the orthodox icon both requires and produces a specific outlook on art, creativity, and religion. As in the teaching of the church, everything earthly—all creation—is viewed in perspective with the divine plane. Life thus becomes, on the one hand, a search for the invisible God and, on the other, an effort to “make ready the paths” for his incarnation within the visible. Any true creativity must function along these same guidelines and must exceed human self-expression. When human life itself becomes such creativity, the universe is made whole again within the synergy of three types of “image:” the forms of the material world, humankind as a living icon, and the uncreated Image of God.
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