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 2004

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William 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
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