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Theological aesthetics : God in imagination, beauty, and art

Author: Richard Viladesau
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this book, Richard Viladesau construes Christian theology as a "theological aesthetics." He examines Christian revelation and its rational presuppositions in relationship to three interconnected meanings of the "aesthetic" in modern thought: human cognition as feeling and imagination; the realm of the beautiful; and the arts. In each area, examples from the arts are correlated with classical and contemporary  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Viladesau
ISBN: 019512622X 9780195126228
OCLC Number: 39223633
Description: xi, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Theology and aesthetics --
God in thought and in imagination : representing the unimaginable --
Divine revelation and human perception --
God and the beautiful : beauty as a way to God --
Art and the sacred --
The beautiful and the good --
Appendix : original texts of poetry quoted in translation.
Responsibility: Richard Viladesau.
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In this book, Richard Viladesau construes Christian theology as a "theological aesthetics." He examines Christian revelation and its rational presuppositions in relationship to three interconnected meanings of the "aesthetic" in modern thought: human cognition as feeling and imagination; the realm of the beautiful; and the arts. In each area, examples from the arts are correlated with classical and contemporary theological themes.

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