A01=Aidan Nichols O.P.
Analogia Entis
Author_Aidan Nichols O.P.
Benedict XVI
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Christian Art
Christian theology
Christological Perspective
De Immortalitate Animae
De Vera Religione
Divine Hypostasis
Dogmatic Definition
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Eric Gill
Gauguin
Georges Braque
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Holy Images
Human Hypostasis
iconography studies
Iconophile Theologies
Jeremy Begbie
liturgical aesthetics
Marie Alain Couturier
Nicaea II
philosophical aesthetics
religious art theory
Roost
Sacred Art
Sergei Bulgakov
Seventh Ecumenical Council
Temporal Medicine
Theological Aesthetics
theological perspectives on sacred art
visual culture in religion
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754660019
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 beautiful; and the difficulties of practising a sacral aesthetic, whether as producer or consumer, in an epoch when the visual arts themselves have left behind not only Church but for the greater part the public as well. The thought of theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, Balthasar, Ratzinger, Bulgakov, Maritain and others are explored.
Aidan Nichols O. P. is John Paul II Lecturer in Roman Catholic Theology in the University of Oxford, UK. He has also taught at the Pontifical University of St Thomas, Rome; St Mary’s College, Oscott; and Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. He has published some thirty books, and over seventy articles.
