Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown
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Anagogical Movement
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Celestial Hierarchy
Christological framework
Deus Absconditus
divina
divine
Divine Beauty
Divine Names
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ethical transformation
Gormley's Sculpture
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Imago Dei
Interior Intimo Meo
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Lectio Divina
Leo III
liturgical beauty and social change
Liturgical Movement
mystery
mystical
Mystical Theology
mystical tradition
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Rahner's Theology
rahners
Rahner’s Theology
religious aesthetics
Religious Affections
Sacrosanctum Concilium
Silent Mystery
St Aelred
St Thomas Aquinas
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Unlimited Horizon
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worship embodiment
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- ISBN 9781032099668
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
