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Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages /

"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the eucharistic beauty that is both seen (with the eyes of faith) and eaten, on the other, intrigues me and inspires this book. One cannot ask theo-aesthetic questions abou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Astell, Ann W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "Taste and see" : the eating of beauty
  • The apple and the Eucharist : foods for theological aesthetics
  • "Hidden manna" : Bernard of Clairvaux, Gertrude of Helfta, and the monastic art of humility
  • "Adorned with wounds" : Saint Bonaventure's Legenda maior and the Franciscan art of poverty
  • "Imitate me as I imitate Christ" : three Catherines, the food of souls, and the Dominican art of preaching
  • The Eucharist, the Spiritual exercises, and the art of obedience : Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Michelangelo
  • Weil and Hegel : a eucharistic "ante-/anti-aesthetic" aesthetics?
  • To (fail to) conclude : eucharists without end.