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Theological aesthetics : God in imagination, beauty, and art /

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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 imag...

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Main Author: Viladesau, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Aesthetics > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christianity and the arts.
Arts > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Esthétique > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Systematic.
Aesthetics > Religious aspects > Christianity
Christianity and the arts
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theology and aesthetics
  • 2. God in thought and in imagination : representing the unimaginable
  • 3. Divine revelation and human perception
  • 4. God and the beautiful : beauty as a way to God
  • 5. Art and the sacred
  • 6. The beautiful and the good
  • Appendix : original texts of poetry quoted in translation.