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

• Autore: Nichols Aidan
• Pubblicazione: Aldershot, Hants ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Disciplina: 230
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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 ; NO; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Redeeming beauty
• ISBN: 1-315-24511-6; 1-281-10439-6; 9786611104399; 0-7546-8447-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451233303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts.