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Autore |
Nichols Aidan |
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Titolo |
Redeeming beauty [[electronic resource] ] : soundings in sacral aesthetics / / Aidan Nichols |
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Aldershot, Hants ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-24511-6 |
1-281-10439-6 |
9786611104399 |
0-7546-8447-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ashgate studies in theology, imagination and the arts |
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Soggetti |
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Aesthetics - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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