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Author : Francesca Aran Murphy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567097080
Reveals the importance of the sacramental imagination as the key to the renewal of Christology and of modern Christian literature.
Author : Francesca Aran Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1472549627
Reveals the importance of the sacramental imagination as the key to the renewal of Christology and of modern Christian literature
Author : Jonathan King
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683590590
Why is God's beauty often absent from our theology? Rarely do theologians take up the theme of God's beauty—even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of the Lord. In The Beauty of the Lord, Jonathan King restores aesthetics as not merely a valid lens for theological reflection, but an essential one. Jesus, our incarnate Redeemer, displays the Triune God's beauty in his actions and person, from creation to final consummation. How can and should theology better reflect this unveiled beauty? The Beauty of the Lord is a renewal of a truly aesthetic theology and a properly theological aesthetics.
Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080282921X
The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world. The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Levinas, and others. Hart pays special attention to Nietzsche's famous narrative of the "will to power" -- a narrative largely adopted by the world today -- and he offers an engaging revision (though not rejection) of the genealogy of nihilism, thereby highlighting the significant "interruption" that Christian thought introduced into the history of metaphysics. This discussion sets the stage for a retrieval of the classic Christian account of beauty and sublimity, and of the relation of both to the question of being. Written in the form of a dogmatica minora, this main section of the book offers a pointed reading of the Christian story in four moments, or parts: Trinity, creation, salvation, and eschaton. Through a combination of narrative and argument throughout, Hart ends up demonstrating the power of Christian metaphysics not only to withstand the critiques of modern and postmodern thought but also to move well beyond them. Strikingly original and deeply rewarding, The Beauty of the Infinite is both a constructively critical account of the history of metaphysics and a compelling contribution to it.
Author : Mark C. Mattes
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493410309
Many contemporary theologians seek to retrieve the concept of beauty as a way for people to encounter God. This groundbreaking book argues that while Martin Luther's view of beauty has often been ignored or underappreciated, it has much to contribute to that quest. Mark Mattes, one of today's leading Lutheran theologians, analyzes Luther's theological aesthetics and discusses its implications for music, art, and the contemplative life. Mattes shows that for Luther, the cross is the lens through which the beauty of God is refracted into the world.
Author : Richard Harries
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826476589
British bishop argues for a distinctively Christian approach to art.
Author : Veronica Donnelly
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3039107232
Balthasar is one of the most influential of Catholic twentieth-century theologians, and his oeuvre is astonishing in its range and amplitude. This together with a style of writing that is cyclic rather than systematic makes his work difficult to assimilate. The author has overcome this obstacle by finding an integrating motif that makes coherent sense of the whole. That motif is the concept of 'form'. The first section of the book deals with that 'form': its genesis, its meaning as a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts, and as a revelation of the mystery of Being. Section two shows how, when the concept is applied christologically, it signifies the incarnate form of Jesus as expressing the glory of the triune God, the source of Being. Section three, which deals specifically with Balthasar's soteriology, demonstrates how because of his mission to save a sinful world the form of Jesus has to undergo suffering and death and become apparently 'formless'. While indicating that the main lines of Balthasar's theology are rooted in tradition, the book also illustrates the radicalness of his approach. His dialogue with theologians and philosophers, both ancient and modern, is discussed and evaluated throughout.
Author : Daniel J. Treier,Mark Husbands,Roger Lundin
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830828432
Editors Mark Husbands, Roger Lundin and Daniel J. Treier present ten essays that explore a Christian approach to beauty and the arts. The visual arts, music and literature are considered as well as the theological meaning and place of the arts in a fallen world redeemed by Christ.
Author : O. P. Aidan Nichols,Aidan Nichols
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754684473
Redeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of 'sacral aesthetics' - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant beauty. Aidan Nichols investigates five principal themes: the foundation of beauty in the natural order through divine creative action; explicitly 'evangelical' beauty as a quality of biblical revelation and notably at its climax in Christ; the legitimacy of making and venerating artworks; qualities of the self in relation to objective presentation of the religiously beautiful; and the difficulties of practising a sacral aesthetic, whether as producer or consumer, in an epoch when the visual arts themselves have left behind not only Church but for the greater part the public as well. The thought of theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, Balthasar, Ratzinger, Bulgakov, Maritain and others is explored.
Author : Patrick Sherry
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCSC:32106011362792
This text discusses what both the early Fathers and later writers such as Calvin and Sergius Bulgakov said about the association of beauty, both in nature and art, with the Holy Spirit. It also considers topics such as divine glory, inspiration and the eschatological character of beauty.
Author : Brian Zahnd
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616385859
Zahnd issues a challenge to Christians to discover new vitality through re-envisioning, reimagining, and reforming the church according to the pattern of the cruciform. Using stories from the lives of St. Francis of Assisi and from his own life, he teaches believers to stay on the journey to discover the kingdom of God in a fuller, richer way.
Author : Meredith G. Kline
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725206540
The underlying concept developed here is the paradigmatic function of the theophanic Glory-cloud in the creation of the image of God. Dr. Kline identifies the major symbolic models employed in Scripture to expound the nature of the divine image in humanity - the priestly and the prophetic.
Author : Richard Viladesau
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195188110
Viladesau focuses on poetry and the visual arts as he seeks to understand 'The Beauty of the Cross' as it developed in theology and art from the early Christian era through the middle ages.
Author : Cecilia González-Andrieu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1602583536
It is often difficult to describe beauty or even justify attempts to experience something beautiful. Yet if artists--whether painters or poets, actors or musicians, architects or sculptors--teach us anything, it is that the pursuit of beauty is a common feature among all humanity. As Cecilia González-Andrieu contends, these varied experiences with artistic beauty are embedded with revelatory and prophetic power that not only affects a single individual but allows for communal formation. Named one of America magazine's most promising young theologians, González-Andrieu seeks to engage art in order to reveal its religious significance. Bridge to Wonder proposes a method of theological aesthetics allowing readers to mine the depths of creative beauty to discover variegated theological truths that enable greater communion with each other and the One source of all that is beautiful.
Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310109099
Abstract theology is overrated, for God can be found in even the most ordinary of things. Jesus used things like a lily, sparrow, and sheep to teach about the kingdom of God. And in the Old Testament, God repeatedly describes himself and his saving work in relation to physical things such as a rock, horn, or eagle. In God of All Things, pastor and author Andrew Wilson invites you to rediscover God in this way, too--through ordinary, everyday things. He explores the idea of a material world and presents a variety of created marvels that reveal the gospel in everyday life and fuel worship and joy in God--marvels like: Dust: the image of God Horns: the salvation of God Donkeys: the peace of God Water: the life of God Viruses: the problem of God Cities: the kingdom of God God of All Things will leave you with a deeper understanding of Scripture, the world you live in, and the God who made it all.