Lost in wonder
Subtitle: essays on liturgy and the arts
By: Aidan Nichols
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781409431619; 9781409431626
Subjects: Christianity and the arts; Liturgics
Description: This book explores the liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural space, iconography and music, and the poetic response which the revelation the liturgy carries can produce. Nichols makes the case for Christianity's capacity to inspire high culture - both in principle and through well-chosen historical examples which draw on the best in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: St. Thomas on the sacramental liturgy; title: Guardini and Ratzinger on the theology of the liturgy; title: Eucharistic theology and the rite of Mass; title: Architecture in the church; title: The icon revisited; title: Paul Claudel on sacred art; title: A theological perspective on church music; title: Dante's Commedia and the role of friars; title: Poetics in the Russian diaspora; title: Conclusion: by way of an ending: religion, science, art.