Aesthetics as a Religious Factor in Eastern and Western Christianity: Selected Papers of the International Conference Held at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, in June 2004William Peter van den Bercken, Jonathan Sutton Peeters Publishers, 2005 - 443 Seiten 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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Milica BakicHayden The Aesthetics of Theosis Uncovering | 25 |
Amy Slagle Imagined Aesthetics Constructions of Aesthetic | 53 |
Petra Couvée Aspects of Sublime and Istinnost in Contemporary | 81 |
русский символист | 122 |
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt Visions of Icons and Reading Rooms | 125 |
Michael Aksionov Meerson Персоналистский аспект литур | 165 |
Olga Meerson Тропы в церковнославянском Богослужении | 177 |
Philip Westbroek A Russian Polemic on Wagner and the Symbol | 197 |
A Manifesta | 241 |
Ann Shukman Whats Wrong With Images? Reflections on | 303 |
Hans Alma By Virtue of Inner Necessity Religious Art in | 313 |
Sergei Filatov Русская Православная Церковь в поисках | 325 |
Anton Houtepen Pascha Domini An Iconic Hermeneutics of | 373 |
Frans Vosman Ethics and Aesthetics A Critical Evaluation | 385 |
Ruud Welten Toward a Phenomenology of the Icon | 395 |
Maarten Wisse Augustines Trinitarian Aesthetics in De Trini | 405 |
APPLIED AESTHETICS IN CHURCH | 209 |
Inge LinderGaillard The Aesthetics of Contemporary French | 225 |
Konstantin Zenkin Учение Григория Паламы о сущности | 436 |