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This study provides one indication that as aesthetics begins to be reconcieved, which is starting to happen on many fronts, it can play a more significant role both in philosophy and in religious reflection.

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Author:   Frank Burch Brown ,  David Jasper
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 1990
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781349100231

ISBN 10:   1349100234
Pages:   225
Publication Date:   01 January 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Introduction: the prospect of religious aesthetics; the aims and premises of the current study; the strategy in brief. Part 2 Can aesthetics be Christian?: aesthetics, theology and the example of ethics; rethinking aesthetics; the easthetic and the religious - theory at an impasse; religious aesthetica - or, farewell to the duck/rabbit; aesthetics in theology. Part 3 Art, religion and the aesthetic milieu: aesthetics, anti-aesthetics, neo-aesthetics; in search of aesthetica; exemplary aesthetica and deficient aesthetics; the aesthetic continuum; the aesthetic milieu in view of the religious. Part 4 Artistic makings and religious meanings: art and impurity; concepts and definitions of art; interlude - the ""more"" within art; the makings of art; artistic imagination and religious meaning. Part 5 Varieties of religious aesthetic experience: religion and its varieties; imagining Christianity aesthetically; Christian aesthetics amd divine transcendence; Christian aesthetics and human transformation. Part 6 Sin and bad taste: aesthetic criteria in the realm of religion; antinomy; elements of taste; taste in the realm of religion; against the antinomy; sinful taste. Part 7 Questioning the classics: norms and canons in religion and art; classics in question; artworks as religious classics; the plurality of classics and the conflict of norms; performing the tradition - the makings of religious pluralism. Part 8 Conclusion: aesthetics from the standpoint of theology - standpoints of aesthetic understanding; aesthetics from the present standpoint; aesthetics - philosophical, religious, theological."

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