LEADER 03472nam 22006614a 450 001 9910824536403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-351-90607-0 010 $a1-351-90608-9 010 $a1-315-24511-6 010 $a1-281-10439-6 010 $a9786611104399 010 $a0-7546-8447-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000415727 035 $a(EBL)438852 035 $a(OCoLC)427508898 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000234287 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11203012 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000234287 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241331 035 $a(PQKB)11755620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438852 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10211448 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL110439 035 $a(OCoLC)1267989563 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1267989563 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781315245119 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000415727 100 $a20060602d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||unuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRedeeming beauty $esoundings in sacral aesthetics /$fAidan Nichols 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aAldershot, Hants ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (164 p.) 225 1 $aAshgate studies in theology, imagination and the arts 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 311 $a0-7546-6001-X 311 $a0-7546-5895-3 327 $aCover; 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 sacre?; 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 327 $aNO; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z 330 $aRedeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of 'sacral aesthetics' - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant beauty. Aidan Nichols investigates five principal themes: the foundation of beauty in the natural order through divine creative action; explicitly 'evangelical' beauty as a quality of biblical revelation and notably at its climax in Christ; the legitimacy of making and venerating artworks; qualities of the self in relation to objective presentation of the religiously beautiful; and the difficulties of practising a sacral aesthetic, whether as producer or consumer, in an epoch when the visual arts themselves have left behind not only Church but for the greater part the public as well. The thought of theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, Balthasar, Ratzinger, Bulgakov, Maritain and others are explored. 410 0$aAshgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts. 606 $aAesthetics$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 615 0$aAesthetics$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a230 700 $aNichols$b Aidan$01086269 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824536403321 996 $aRedeeming Beauty$94118253 997 $aUNINA