'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on
questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the
arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem. The
central theme of this book is that of beauty. Farley employs a new
typology of western texts on beauty and a theological analysis of the
image of God and redemption to counter the centuries-long tendency to
ignore or marginalize beauty and the aesthetic as part of the life of
faith. Studying the interpretation of beauty in ancient Greece,
eighteenth-century England, the work of Jonathan Edwards, and
nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophies of human
self-transcendence, the author explores whether Christian existence,
the life of faith, and the ethical exclude or require an aesthetic
dimension in the sense of beauty. The work will be of particular
interest to those interested in Christian theology, ethics, and
religion and the arts.
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ISBN
9781351937368
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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