Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and ArtOxford University Press, 25 mar 1999 - 320 This book explores the role of aesthetic experience in our perception and understanding of the holy. Richard Viladesau's goal is to articulate a theology of revelation, examined in relation to three principal dimensions of the aesthetic realm: feeling and imagination; beauty (or taste); and the arts. After briefly considering ways in which theology itself can be imaginative or beautiful, Viladesau concentrates on the theological significance of aesthetic data provided by each of the three major spheres of aesthetic perception and response. Throughout the work, the underlying question is how each of these spheres serves as a source (however ambiguous) of revelation. Although he frames much of his argument in terms of Catholic theology--from the Church Fathers to Karl Rahner, Hans urs von Balthasar, Bernard Lonergan, and David Tracy--Viladesau also makes extensive use of ideas from the Protestant theologian of the arts Gerardus van der Leeuw, and draws insights from such diverse thinkers as Hans Goerg Gadamer, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Iris Murdoch. His analysis is enlivened by the artistic examples he selects: the music of Mozart as contemplated by Karl Barth, Schoenbergs opera Moses und Aron, the sculptures of Chartres Cathedral, poems by Rilke and Michelangelo, and many others. What emerges from this study is what Viladeseau terms a transcendental theology of aesthetics. In Thomistic terms, he finds that beauty is not only a perfection but a transcendental. That is, any instance of beauty, rightly perceived and rightly understood, can be seen to imply divinely beautiful things as well. In other words, Viladesau argues, God is the absolute and necessary condition for the possibility of beauty. |
Spis treści
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God in Thought and in Imagination Representing the Unimaginable | 39 |
Divine Revelation and Human Perception | 73 |
God and the Beautiful Beauty as a Way to God | 103 |
Art and the Sacred | 141 |
The Beautiful and the Good | 183 |
Original Texts of Poetry Quoted in Translation | 215 |
Notes | 221 |
Index | 287 |
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Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art Richard Viladesau Ograniczony podgląd - 1999 |
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Strona 52 - I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.
Strona 9 - Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down our streets, blurring the gaslamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows? To whom, if not to them and their master, do we owe the lovely silver mists that brood over our river, and turn to faint forms of fading grace curved bridge and swaying barge? The extraordinary "From "The Decay of Lying,
Strona 106 - And the true order of going or being led by another to the things of love...
Strona 218 - Erde, ist es nicht dies, was du willst: unsichtbar in uns erstehn ? - Ist es dein Traum nicht, einmal unsichtbar zu sein? - Erde! unsichtbar! Was, wenn Verwandlung nicht, ist dein drängender Auftrag?
Strona 216 - O Mensch! Gib acht! Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht ? „Ich schlief, ich schlief — , Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht : Die Welt ist tief, Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht. Tief ist ihr Weh — , Lust — tiefer noch als Herzeleid: Weh spricht: Vergeh! Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit — , — Will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!
Strona 203 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Strona 217 - Sind wir vielleicht hier, um zu sagen : Haus, Brücke, Brunnen, Tor, Krug, Obstbaum, Fenster, höchstens : Säule', Turm .... aber zu sagen, verstehs, oh zu sagen so, wie selber die Dinge niemals innig meinten zu sein.
Strona 110 - I see myself dwelling, as it were, in some strange region of the universe which neither exists entirely in the slime of the earth nor entirely in the purity of Heaven; and that, by the grace of God, I can be transported from this inferior to that higher world in an anagogical manner.
Strona 52 - You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Strona 218 - Herr: ein Ding zu machen; aus den Fremden, denn nicht Einen kenn ich, Herr, und mir und mir ein Ding zu machen...