Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown: Another PlaceRoutledge, 02 մրտ, 2017 թ. - 212 էջ 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. |
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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 | |
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Abbot Suger adoration aesthetic anagogical apophatic argues ascent Augustine’s baptism became become body Celestial Hierarchy centre Chapter Christ Christian Church contemplation created order creation deification Denys depths desire disclosure Divine Names Dufrenne emphasis encounter entails Eucharist Evdokimov existence experience expression faith feeling glory God’s grace Gregory of Nyssa heart hidden Holy human humanity’s icon imago Dei Incarnation intimacy invisible Jantzen John of Damascus journey knowledge lectio divina light liturgical movement liturgy living manifest material Maximus Maximus the Confessor means medieval mind movement mystery Mystical Theology nature negative theology never notion offers one’s participation person Plotinus Pope Benedict XVI praise prayer presence Protestant Reformation PseudoDionysius quoted in Thiessen Rahner reality reflects relation religion religious revealed rite ritual sacramental sacred salvation Scripture sense silence soul spiritual St Aelred St Augustine St John St Teresa symbolic things transcendence transformation truth understanding visible Word worship writes