"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 foundation of beauty in the natural order through divine creative action; explicitly 'evangelical' beauty as a quality of biblical revelation and notably at its climax in Christ; the legitimacy of making and venerating artworks; qualities of the self in relation to objective presentation of the religiously beautiful; and the difficulties of practising a sacral aesthetic, whether as producer or consumer, in an epoch when the visual arts themselves have left behind not only Church but for the greater part the public as well. The thought of theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, Balthasar, Ratzinger, Bulgakov, Maritain and others are explored.
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Aidan Nichols is Affiliated Lecturer in the University of Cambridge, UK. He has also taught at the Pontifical University of St Thomas, Rome; St Mary's College, Oscott; and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. He has published some thirty books, and over seventy articles.
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Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Old Testament, David Jones, Hebrew Bible, Eric Gill, New Testament, New York, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Middle Ages, Jacques Maritain, Saint Augustine, Der Geist, Mother of God, Seventh Ecumenical Council, Catholic Church, Dominicans of L'Art, John of Damascus, Province of France, Word of God, Agnets Bozhii, English Channel, First World War, Holy Trinity, San Francisco New!
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