William A. Dyrness (California Fuller Theological Seminary)

The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781108717823
• ISBN-10: 1108717829
• Artikelnr.: 64223883

Autorenporträt

William A. Dyrness is Senior Professor of Theology and Culture in the School of Mission and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of Poetic Theology (2011) and most recently The Origin of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe (2019).

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.