Saving beauty
Subtitle: a theological aesthetics of nature
By: Kathryn B. Alexander
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781451472233
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Nature; Doctrinal Theology; Nature (Aesthetics); Christianity
Description: Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community. With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, the volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience. All three types, in fact, are critically necessary, as the author argues, in eliciting hope for ecological redemption. This volume makes a vital contribution to the systematic and philosophical framework for ecological theology, aesthetics, and theological ethics.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Graduate Theological Union, 2012 under title: Saving beauty : Andy Goldsworthy and a theological aesthetics of nature.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural beauty : a theological history --; title: Nature : beauty and salvation --; title: Nature revealed : religious insight in the art of Andy Goldsworthy --; title: A theological aesthetics of nature --; title: Conclusion : saving beauty.