Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts – serie
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Faith, Hope and Poetry
Theology and the Poetic Imagination
Inbunden, 2010
2886 kr
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Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the …
Faith, Hope and Poetry
Theology and the Poetic Imagination
Häftad, 2012
828 kr
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Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the …
Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts
Av Sarah Covington, Kathryn Reklis
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than reject art and aestheticism, Protestants developed their own aesthetic values, which Protestant …
Memento Mori in Contemporary Art
Theologies of Lament and Hope
Inbunden, 2019
2510 kr
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This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the …
Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God
Inbunden, 2019
2886 kr
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While many scholars in Shakespeare and Religious Studies assume a secularist viewpoint in their interpretation of Shakespeare’s works, there are others that allow for a theologically coherent reading. Located within the turn to religion in Shakespeare studies, this book goes beyond the claim that …
Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts
Theology, Aesthetics, and Practice
Av Sheona Beaumont, Madeleine Emerald Thiele
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity. Modern intellectual enquiry has often been reluctant to engage theology as an …
Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts
Theology, Aesthetics, and Practice
Av Sheona Beaumont, Madeleine Emerald Thiele
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity. Modern intellectual enquiry has often been reluctant to engage theology as an …
Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God
Häftad, 2021
845 kr
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While many scholars in Shakespeare and Religious Studies assume a secularist viewpoint in their interpretation of Shakespeare’s works, there are others that allow for a theologically coherent reading. Located within the turn to religion in Shakespeare studies, this book goes beyond the claim that …
Living Theodrama
Reimagining Theological Ethics
Häftad, 2019
705 kr
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Living Theodrama is a fresh, creative introduction to theological ethics. Offering an imaginative approach through dialogue with theatrical theory and practice, Vander Lugt demonstrates a new way to integrate actor-oriented and action-oriented approaches to Christian ethics within a comprehensive …
Faith and Beauty
A Theological Aesthetic
Inbunden, 2001
2474 kr
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'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem. The central theme of this book is that of beauty. Farley employs a new typology of western texts on …
Faith and Beauty
A Theological Aesthetic
Häftad, 2001
1041 kr
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'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem. The central theme of this book is that of beauty. Farley employs a new typology of western texts on …
Passion in Art
Häftad, 2004
692 kr
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Jesus was not depicted on the cross until the early fifth century. Since then this scene has been painted or carved in sharply differing ways. With the aid of over thirty full-page plates, The Passion in Art explores the historical contexts and theologies that led to such differing depictions. …
Baptized Imagination
The Theology of George MacDonald
Inbunden, 2006
2746 kr
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The imagination has been called, 'the principal organ for knowing and responding to disclosures of transcendent truth'. This book probes the theological sources of the imagination, which make it a vital tool for knowing and responding to such disclosures. Kerry Dearborn approaches areas of theology …
Faithful Performances
Enacting Christian Tradition
Av Steven R. Guthrie, Trevor A. Hart
Inbunden, 2007
3168 kr
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The metaphor of performance has been applied fruitfully by anthropologists and other social theorists to different aspects of human social existence, and furnishes a potentially helpful model in terms of which to think theologically about Christian life. After an introductory editorial chapter …
Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar
Av James Fodor, Oleg V. Bychkov
Inbunden, 2008
2513 kr
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This collection of essays by distinguished authors explores the present-day field of theological aesthetics: from von Balthasar’s contribution and parallel developments to correctives and alternatives to his approach. A tribute to von Balthasar’s own project expands into a dialogue with ancient and …
Redeeming Beauty
Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics
Häftad, 2007
823 kr
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Redeeming Beauty explores the richness of orthodox Christian tradition, both Western and Eastern, in matters of 'sacral aesthetics' - a term used to denote the foundations, production and experience of religiously relevant beauty. Aidan Nichols investigates five principal themes: the foundation of …
Art, Imagination and Christian Hope
Patterns of Promise
Inbunden, 2012
2746 kr
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In hope, Christian faith reconfigures the shape of what is familiar in order to pattern the contours of God's promised future. In this process, the present is continuously re-shaped by ventures of hopeful and expectant living. In art, this same poetic interplay between past, present and future …
Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon
Seeing the World with the Eyes of God
Inbunden, 2010
3168 kr
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This book contributes to the re-emerging field of 'theology through the arts' by proposing a way of approaching one of the most challenging theological concepts - divine timelessness - through the principle of construction of space in the icon. One of the main objectives of this book is to discuss …
Christian Theology and Tragedy
Theologians, Tragic Literature and Tragic Theory
Inbunden, 2011
2886 kr
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Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy explores the rich variety of conversations between theology and tragedy. Three main areas are examined: theological readings of a range of tragic literature, from plays to novels and the …
Memento Mori in Contemporary Art
Theologies of Lament and Hope
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the …
Christian Theology and Tragedy
Theologians, Tragic Literature and Tragic Theory
Häftad, 2021
811 kr
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Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy explores the rich variety of conversations between theology and tragedy. Three main areas are examined: theological readings of a range of tragic literature, from plays to novels and the …
Faithful Performances
Enacting Christian Tradition
Av Steven R. Guthrie, Trevor A. Hart
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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The metaphor of performance has been applied fruitfully by anthropologists and other social theorists to different aspects of human social existence, and furnishes a potentially helpful model in terms of which to think theologically about Christian life. After an introductory editorial chapter …
Baptized Imagination
The Theology of George MacDonald
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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The imagination has been called, 'the principal organ for knowing and responding to disclosures of transcendent truth'. This book probes the theological sources of the imagination, which make it a vital tool for knowing and responding to such disclosures. Kerry Dearborn approaches areas of theology …
Theological Anthropology in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito
Sin, Grace, and Conversion
Inbunden, 2022
2886 kr
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This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozart’s late opera seria La clemenza di Tito. The book’s thesis is two-fold: first, that Catholics might have heard the opera’s advocacy of enlightened absolutism as …
Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts
Av Sarah Covington, Kathryn Reklis
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than reject art and aestheticism, Protestants developed their own aesthetic values, which Protestant …
Poet as Believer
A Theological Study of Paul Claudel
Av Aidan Nichols, O.P.
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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This is the first comprehensive study of the theological significance of Paul Claudel, a poet frequently cited by literary-minded theologians in Europe and theologically-minded poets (such as von Balthasar, de Lubac and Eliot). His writing combines cosmology and history, Bible and metaphysics, …
Theological Anthropology in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito
Sin, Grace, and Conversion
Häftad, 2024
744 kr
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This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozart’s late opera seria La clemenza di Tito. The book’s thesis is two-fold: first, that Catholics might have heard the opera’s advocacy of enlightened absolutism as …
Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon
Seeing the World with the Eyes of God
Häftad, 2021
705 kr
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This book contributes to the re-emerging field of 'theology through the arts' by proposing a way of approaching one of the most challenging theological concepts - divine timelessness - through the principle of construction of space in the icon. One of the main objectives of this book is to discuss …
Holman Hunt and the Light of the World in Oxford
Inbunden, 2024
2131 kr
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This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt. Created in the mid-nineteenth century, it is often said to be the most widely exhibited work of art in history and remains one of the most widely known Christian …
Holman Hunt and the Light of the World in Oxford
Häftad, 2026
705 kr
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This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt. Created in the mid-nineteenth century, it is often said to be the most widely exhibited work of art in history and remains one of the most widely known Christian …