Liturgy and the beauty of the unknown : another place
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
1 online resource (203 pages)
9780754686798, 9780754633037, 9781351921831, 9781315250366, 9786611208400, 0754686795, 0754633039, 1351921835, 1315250365, 6611208402
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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
English