Beauty and Holiness
Martin, James Alfred.
Beauty and Holiness the Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion. [electronic resource] : - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (232 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library . - Princeton legacy library. .
Cover; Contents; The Bible; Plato; Aristotle; Augustine; Thomas Aquinas; Jonathan Edwards; Hume; Kant; Schiller; Schlegel; Schelling; Schleiermacher; Hegel; Otto; Eliade; Van Der Leeuw; Tillich; Geertz; Santayana; Dewey; Whitehead; Heidegger; Wittgenstein; India; China; Japan.
In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to ""worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness"" addressed a tradition that has comprehended holiness primarily in terms of ethical righteousness--a conception that has strongly influenced Western understandings of religion. As the author points out, however, the Greek forbears of Western thought, as well as many Eastern traditio.
9781400860593 1400860598
22573/ctt73697c JSTOR
Aesthetics--Religious aspects.
Art and religion.
PHILOSOPHY / Religious
Aesthetics--Religious aspects.
Art and religion.
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
Electronic books.
BL65.A4
111.85
Beauty and Holiness the Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion. [electronic resource] : - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (232 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library . - Princeton legacy library. .
Cover; Contents; The Bible; Plato; Aristotle; Augustine; Thomas Aquinas; Jonathan Edwards; Hume; Kant; Schiller; Schlegel; Schelling; Schleiermacher; Hegel; Otto; Eliade; Van Der Leeuw; Tillich; Geertz; Santayana; Dewey; Whitehead; Heidegger; Wittgenstein; India; China; Japan.
In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to ""worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness"" addressed a tradition that has comprehended holiness primarily in terms of ethical righteousness--a conception that has strongly influenced Western understandings of religion. As the author points out, however, the Greek forbears of Western thought, as well as many Eastern traditio.
9781400860593 1400860598
22573/ctt73697c JSTOR
Aesthetics--Religious aspects.
Art and religion.
PHILOSOPHY / Religious
Aesthetics--Religious aspects.
Art and religion.
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
Electronic books.
BL65.A4
111.85
