Aidan Nichols O.P.

Redeeming Beauty

Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

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, investigating five principal themes.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780754660019
• ISBN-10: 075466001X
• Artikelnr.: 57042317

Autorenporträt

Aidan Nichols O. P. is John Paul II Lecturer in Roman Catholic Theology in the University of Oxford, UK. He has also taught at the Pontifical University of St Thomas, Rome; St Mary's College, Oscott; and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. He has published some thirty books, and over seventy articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Foundations, in Creation and Grace: Aesthetics in
Augustine and Aquinas; The origin and crisis of Christian art. Part 2
Twentieth Century Theologians of the Image: Hans Urs von Balthasar on art
as redemptive beauty; Sergei Bulgakov on the art of the icon; Pope Benedict
XVI on holy images. Part 3 The Difficulties of Practice: The French
Dominicans and the journal L'Art Sacré; The English uses of Maritain's
aesthetics: Eric Gill and David Jones. Conclusion: Christ and the muses;
Index of names.