HSTY1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Imitation Of Christ, Popular Piety, Affective Piety
18 Jul 2018
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Affective piety: emotive religious sensibility focusing on humanity of christ, his suffering and the sufferi(cid:374)g of his (cid:373)other. Still their god, (cid:271)ut see his hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)ity (cid:374)ot just di(cid:448)i(cid:374)ity. Jesus (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e made such a sacrifice for them if they hadn"t been special, increases people"s belief in themselves. Parishio(cid:374)ers payed for (cid:272)hur(cid:272)h pai(cid:374)ti(cid:374)gs, s(cid:272)ree(cid:374) pai(cid:374)ti(cid:374)gs, stai(cid:374) glass (cid:449)i(cid:374)do(cid:449)s et(cid:272). The chur(cid:272)h did(cid:374)"t pay for local church artwork, meaning that the average person became engaged with their religion on a more personal level. Representation of jesus on the cross rise, more realistic. Focus on jesus as a human, who really suffered for humanity. Artwork educated the illiterate and made real his pain. Pieta (unknown german pastor c1400 bayerisches nationalmuseum, munich) The wounds of christ becomes a specific devotion, the man of sorrow is the dead body of christ taken off the cross. He eyes open making us implicit in his death. Also a devotion of the christ child, placed in cribs.
