TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nichols,Aidan
TI  - Redeeming beauty: soundings in sacral aesthetics 
T2  - Ashgate studies in theology, imagination and the arts
SN  - 9780754684473
AV  - BR115.A8 N53 2007eb
U1  - 230 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - fast
KW  - Esthetica
KW  - gtt
KW  - Religieuze aspecten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Aesthetics in Augustine and Aquinas -- The origin and crisis of Christian art -- Hans Urs von Balthasar on art as redemptive beauty -- Sergei Bulgakov on the art of the icon -- Benedict XVI on holy images -- The French Dominicans and the journal L'art sacré -- The English uses of Maritain's aesthetics : Eric Gill and David Jones; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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 beautif
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