Redeeming beauty : soundings in sacral aesthetics /
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| Author / Creator: | Nichols, Aidan. |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 153 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ashgate studies in theology, imagination and the arts Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196010 |
| Summary: | 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 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 is explored. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 153 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754684473 0754684474 9780754658955 9780754660019 0754658953 075466001X |