Faith and beauty : a theological aesthetic / Edward Farley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farley, Edward, 1929-2014

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

x, 122 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

1 Beauty as the Beast: Traditional and Postmodern Expressions 1

Beauty and the Postmodern 2

Beauty as the Beast in Christian Traditions 6

Hebraic and Christian Iconoclasms 8

2 Beauty as Being: The Irrepressible Character of Beauty 15

The 'Great Theory of Beauty' 17

The Olympian Cosmogonies 17

The Platonic Tradition 19

The Great Theory in the Middle Ages 20

The Process Transmutation of the Great Theory of Beauty 23

Beauty as Being 26

3 Beauty as Sensibility 31

Precursors of the Eighteenth-century Turn 32

The New Problematic of Beauty in the Eighteenth Century 33

The Psychological Relocation of Beauty 34

The Problem of Taste 35

The Sublime 36

Legacies and Ambiguities 38

4 Beauty as Benevolence 43

Primary and Secondary Beauty 44

Beauty as Community 45

Beauty and God 46

The Problem of Objectivity 47

Beauty and Self-transcendence 48

5 Beauty in Human Self-transcendence 51

Human Self-transcendence without Beauty 52

Self-transcendence as Passionate Subjectivity 52

Self-transcendence as Intentional Meaning 54

Self-transcendence as Radical Responsibility 55

The Aesthetic Aspect of Self-transcendence 57

Beauty as a Transcendental Condition of Experience 57

Beyond Self-preoccupation through Beauty 59

The Beauty of the Graceful Body 62

6 Paths to Beauty in Twentieth-century Theology 67

Anti-Aesthetic Protestant Approaches to Beauty 68

Twentieth-century Catholic Theologies of Beauty 74

7 The Beauty of Human Redemption 83

The Image of God as Self-transcendence 85

Formal and Ethical Self-transcendence 86

The Image of God as Potentiality and Actuality 87

The Imago Dei as Beautiful 88

The Despoiled Image 89

The Beauty of Redemptive Remaking 93

Redemptive Self-transcendence 93

Surmounting the Dichotomy of the Ethical and the Aesthetic 94

Faith's Aesthetic Sensibilities 96

8 Beauty, Pathos and Joy 101

Joy: Beyond the Dichotomy of Rigorism and Satisfaction 103

Faith without Beauty 107

Arts in the Life of Faith 110

Synopsis 117

Aesthetics 117

Beauty 117

The Western Story of Beauty 118

Theological Aesthetics and Redemptive Transformation 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754604535

0754604543

OCLC:

45667844