With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of

Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from

An exploration of the biology of meaning that integrates the role of subjective processes with current knowledge of brain/mind function.

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David MacDougall argues for a new conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by word