03445oam 2200649K 450 991077746190332120230629233954.01-351-90607-01-351-90608-91-315-24511-61-281-10439-697866111043990-7546-8447-4(CKB)1000000000415727(EBL)438852(OCoLC)427508898(SSID)ssj0000234287(PQKBManifestationID)11203012(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234287(PQKBWorkID)10241331(PQKB)11755620(MiAaPQ)EBC438852(Au-PeEL)EBL438852(CaPaEBR)ebr10211448(CaONFJC)MIL110439(OCoLC)1267989563(OCoLC-P)1267989563(FlBoTFG)9781315245119(EXLCZ)99100000000041572720210913d2021 uy 0engurcnu|||unuuutxtccrRedeeming Beauty Soundings in Sacral AestheticsFirst edition.[Place of publication not identified] :Routledge,2021.1 online resource (164 p.)Ashgate studies in theology, imagination and the artsIncludes bibliographical references and index.0-7546-6001-X 0-7546-5895-3 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; MNO; P; R; S; T; V; W; ZRedeeming 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 beautiful; and the difficulties of practising a sacral aesthetic, whether as producer or consumer, in an epoch when the visual arts themselves have left behind not only Church but for the greater part the public as well. The thought of theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, Balthasar, Ratzinger, Bulgakov, Maritain and others are explored.Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts.AestheticsReligious aspectsChristianityAestheticsReligious aspectsChristianity.230Nichols Aidan1086269OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910777461903321Redeeming Beauty3826389UNINA