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Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown - David Torevell

Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown

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Buch | Softcover
212 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-09966-8 (ISBN)
CHF 63,90 inkl. MwSt
Contemporary culture is rediscovering the importance of beauty for both social transformation and personal happiness. Theologians have sought, in their varied ways, to demonstrate how God's beauty is associated with notions of truth and goodness. This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy is the means par excellence by which an experience of beauty is communicated. Drawing from both secular and religious understandings, in particular the mystical and apophatic tradition, the book demonstrates how liturgy has the potential to achieve the one ultimately reliable form of beauty because its embodied components are able to reflect the disturbing beauty of the One to whom worship is always offered. Such components rely on understanding the aesthetic dynamics upon which liturgy relies. This book draws from a broad range of disciplines concerned with understanding beauty and self-transformation and concludes that while secular utopian forms have much to contribute to ethical transformation, they ultimately fail since they lack the Christological and eschatological framework needed, which liturgy alone provides.

David Torevell is a member of the Theology, Religion and Philosophy Department at Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Contents: Introduction; The movement of return; The movement of interiority; The movement in the image; The movement of desire; The movement towards silent mystery; The movement of aesthetics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 312 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-032-09966-6 / 1032099666
ISBN-13 978-1-032-09966-8 / 9781032099668
Zustand Neuware
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