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It is often difficult to describe beauty or even justify attempts to experience something beautiful. Yet if artists - whether painters or poets, actors or musicians, architects or sculptors - teach us anything, it is that the pursuit of beauty is a common feature among all humanity. As Cecilia Gonz?ílez-Andrieu contends, these varied experiences with artistic beauty are embedded with revelatory and prophetic power that not only affects a single individual but allows for communal formation. Named one of America magazine's most promising young theologians, Gonzalez-Andrieu seeks to engage art in order to reveal its religious significance. Bridge to Wonder proposes a method of theological aesthetics allowing readers to mine the depths of creative beauty to discover variegated theological truths that enable greater communion with each other and the One source of all that is beautiful.

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<p> Gonz lez-Andrieu's passionately expressed desire is that hearts as well as eyes be opened to the love-inspiring and transformative power of beauty, which is both eternal and earthly, intended and accidental, and often found in the most unexpected places. The divine gift of vision is the beginning of redemption. --Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, Vanderbilt University

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"Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University where she specializes in theological aesthetics, U.S. Latino theology, and systematic theology. She has written for several publications and received the Best Column Award from the Catholic Press Association for her column, ""De Todo Un Poco,"" in The Tidings ."

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