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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451233303321

Autore

Nichols Aidan

Titolo

Redeeming beauty [[electronic resource] ] : soundings in sacral aesthetics / / Aidan Nichols

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hants ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007

ISBN

1-315-24511-6

1-281-10439-6

9786611104399

0-7546-8447-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Ashgate studies in theology, imagination and the arts

Disciplina

230

Soggetti

Aesthetics - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART 1 Foundations, in Creation and Grace; 1 Aesthetics in Augustine and Aquinas; 2 The Origin and Crisis of Christian Art; PART 2 Twentieth-Century Theologians of the Image; 3 Hans Urs von Balthasar on Art as Redemptive Beauty; 4 Sergei Bulgakov on the Art of the Icon; 5 Benedict XVI on Holy Images; PART 3 The Difficulties of Practice; 6 The French Dominicans and the Journal L'Art sacré; 7 The English Uses of Maritain's Aesthetics: Eric Gill and David Jones; 8 Conclusion: Christ and the Muses; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M

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Sommario/riassunto

Redeeming Beauty 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. Aidan Nichols investigates five principal themes: the foundation of beauty in the natural order through divine creative action; explicitly 'evangelical' beauty as a quality of biblical revelation and notably at its climax in Christ; the legitimacy of making and venerating artworks; qualities of the self in relation to objective presentation of the religiously beautif