Aesthetics As a Religious Factor in Eastern And Western Christianity: Selected Papers of the International Conference Held at the University of Utrecht, ... Christian Studies)
Aesthetics As a Religious Factor in Eastern And Western Christianity: Selected Papers of the International Conference Held at the University of Utrecht, ... Christian Studies) (Early Christian Studies) William Peter Van Den Bercken (Editor), Jonathan Sutton (Editor), W. Van Den Bercken (Editor)
Publisher: Peeters
ISBN: 9042916826
DDC: 246
Edition: Paperback; 2006-05-30
Summary:
This volume contains selected papers of a conference in 2004 at
Utrecht University on aesthetics as a religious factor in Eastern and
Western Christianity. They discuss the role of aesthetics in the
presentation and expression of Christian faith in Catholic and
Orthodox tradition. During its history Christianity has produced many
works of art: church architecture, iconography, painting, music and
literary texts. And in Orthodoxy beauty has always been the main form
of religious expression, more than verbal presentation of Christian
teaching, which is embedded in the aesthetic context of liturgy. In
Christian theology beauty has often been seen as a form of divine
revelation, related to the mystery of incarnation. The relation
between aesthetics and religious belief has acquired new relevance in
our secularised world. Today the visible products of Catholic and
Orthodox aesthetics are for many people the main means through which
they come into contact with Christianity and many people without
affinity to religion are attracted by the beauty of Christian art,
inside and outside the church. In modern religious studies the
experience of beauty is recognised as a factor in explaining
religious feelings. The papers are divided in four sections: 1.
Comparative aspects of Orthodox and Catholic aesthetics, 2. Religious
aesthetics in Russian literary culture, 3. Applied aesthetics in
church art, 4. Art-theoretical, ideological and
religious-philosophical aspects.
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