The Image of God the Father in the Christian Plastics

Abstract

Father Plazaola is wondering why the richness and the variety of the Christian artistic heritage is so superior when it is compared to the figurative arts of the other two great monotheistic religions: Judaism and Islam. We are also wondering why the Christian plastic art appropriates itself the right to show the face of God the Father in the infinite variety of God´s images spread throughout ages and symbols. On the basis of data given by the Holy Scriptures dealing with the oldest archeological remains and following the traditional hints of the human thinking, as well as the most meaningful masterpieces of humanity and Christianity, we reach to the idea of a God who didn´t want to speak outside the human language and its features.