the Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion Martin, James Alfred. creator text Electronic books. nju Princeton Princeton University Press 2014 monographic eng

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1 online resource (232 pages). 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. 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. Aesthetics Religious aspects Art and religion PHILOSOPHY / Religious Aesthetics Religious aspects Art and religion PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics BL65.A4 111.85 Martin, James Alfred. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 9781400860593 1400860598 22573/ctt73697c JSTOR http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1700515 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=633101 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztx00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400860593 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=791205 http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1700515 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=633101 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztx00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400860593 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=791205 EBLCP 140719 20200709060139.0 ocn884013183 eng