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Redeeming beauty : soundings in sacral aesthetics /

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 found...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nichols, Aidan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Colección:Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aesthetics in Augustine and Aquinas
  • The origin and crisis of Christian art
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar on art as redemptive beauty
  • Sergei Bulgakov on the art of the icon
  • Benedict XVI on holy images
  • The French Dominicans and the journal L'art sacré
  • The English uses of Maritain's aesthetics : Eric Gill and David Jones.