Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Covington, Sarah; Reklis, Kathryn

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Produktbeschreibung

Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts is the first study of its kind, containing essays that address Protestantism and the fine arts (visual art, music, literature, and architecture), and historical and contemporary Protestant theological perspectives on the subject of beauty and imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429672873
• Artikelnr.: 68889870

Autorenporträt

Sarah Covington is Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York, USA. She is the author of The Trail of Martyrdom: Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England (2009) and The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England (2003). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Albion, Book History, Reformation, the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, History, and Mortality, in addition to numerous book collections. Kathryn Reklis is Associate Professor of Modern Protestant Theology at Fordham University in New York City, USA. Her first monograph was Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination: Jonathan Edwards and the Making of Modernity (2014) and she is currently at work on a history of the "Religion and Literature" movement in the mid-twentieth century. She is the On Media columnist for The Christian Century and holds affiliate positions in Comparative Literature and American Studies at Fordham.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction, by Kathryn Reklis; 2 God, Language and the Use of the
Senses: The Emergence of a Protestant Aesthetic in the Early Modern Period,
by William Dyrness; 3 Protestant Paintings: Artworks by Lucas Cranach and
His Workshop, by Christiane Andersson; 4 Tradition and Invention: German
Lutheran Church Architecture, by Emily Fisher Gray; 5 Forbidden Fruit?
Protestant Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life, by Julie
Berger Hochstrasser; 6 Anti-Papal Aesthetics and the Gunpowder Plot:
Staging Barnabe Barnes' The Devil's Charter, by Adrian Streete; 7
Unintended Aesthetics? The Artistic Afterlives of Protestant Iconoclasm, by
Sarah Covington; 8 Isaac Watts and the Theological Aesthetics of
Evangelical Sacred Song, by Stephen A. Marini; 9 Beauty and the Protestant
Body: Aesthetic Abstraction in Jonathan Edwards, by Kathryn Reklis; 10
Theology and Aesthetics in the Early Nineteenth Century: Kierkegaard's
Alternative to Hegel and Romanticism, by Lee C. Barrett
11 Karl Barth's Doctrine of the Word of God, Mozart & Aesthetics in Four
Movements, by Paul Louis Metzger; 12 The Protestant Encounter with Modern
Architecture, by Gretchen T. Buggeln; 13 Jazz Religious and Secular, by
Jason C. Bivins; 14 "Gorgeousness inheres in anything": The Protestant
Origins of John Updike and Marilynne Robinson's Aesthetics of the Ordinary,
by Alex Engebretson; 15 Black Protestantism and the Aesthetics of Autonomy:
A Decolonial Theological Reflection, by Rufus Burnett; 16 The Borderlands
Aesthetics of Mexican-American Pentecostalism, by Lloyd Barba; 17 Embodied
Aesthetics and Transnational Korean Protestant Christianity, by Minjung
Noh; 18 Conclusion, by Sarah Covington