William A. Dyrness

The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows how the Reformation's focus on God influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781108493352
• ISBN-10: 1108493351
• Artikelnr.: 54687430

Autorenporträt

William A. Dyrness is Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has been a missionary in the Philippines and has taught in seminaries in Manila, Kenya, St. Petersburg and Seoul. He is also the author of 'The Earth is God's: A Theology of American Culture' (1997) and 'Visual Faith: Art, Theology and Worship in Dialogue' (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the medieval context of the Reformation
2. Like and presence in Holbein, Luther and Cranach
3. John Calvin: creation, drama and time
4. Calvin, language and the rise of literary culture
5. Portraits and dramatic culture in sixteenth century England
6. The emerging aesthetics of early modern England: a new world with echoes of the past
7. The new visual culture of reformed Holland and France
8. Epilogue: the cultural afterlife of Protestant aesthetics.