Frank Burch Brown

Religious Aesthetics

A Theological Study of Making and Meaning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Many modes of religious expression and experience have a markedly aesthetic component, even though aesthetic delight itself often appears to be free of moral or religious interests. In this ground-breaking work, Frank Burch Brown shows how aesthetics, no less than ethics, can play a central role in the study of religion and in the practice of theology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 243
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780691024721
• ISBN-10: 0691024723
• Artikelnr.: 21790304

Autorenporträt

Frank Burch Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: the prospect of religious aesthetics; the aims and premises of the current study; the strategy in brief. Part 2 Can aesthetics be Christian?: aesthetics, theology and the example of ethics; rethinking aesthetics; the easthetic and the religious - theory at an impasse; religious aesthetica - or, farewell to the duck/rabbit; aesthetics in theology. Part 3 Art, religion and the aesthetic milieu: aesthetics, anti-aesthetics, neo-aesthetics; in search of aesthetica; exemplary aesthetica and deficient aesthetics; the aesthetic continuum; the aesthetic milieu in view of the religious. Part 4 Artistic makings and religious meanings: art and impurity; concepts and definitions of art; interlude - the "more" within art; the makings of art; artistic imagination and religious meaning. Part 5 Varieties of religious aesthetic experience: religion and its varieties; imagining Christianity aesthetically; Christian aesthetics amd divine transcendence; Christian aesthetics and human transformation. Part 6 Sin and bad taste: aesthetic criteria in the realm of religion; antinomy; elements of taste; taste in the realm of religion; against the antinomy; sinful taste. Part 7 Questioning the classics: norms and canons in religion and art; classics in question; artworks as religious classics; the plurality of classics and the conflict of norms; performing the tradition - the makings of religious pluralism. Part 8 Conclusion: aesthetics from the standpoint of theology - standpoints of aesthetic understanding; aesthetics from the present standpoint; aesthetics - philosophical, religious, theological.

Rezensionen

An important book, wide ranging, often very witty, refreshingly undogmatic in its approach to both art and religion, and showing an impressive grasp of the current state of aesthetics and possible new directions.