Faith and Beauty: A Theological Aesthetic

by Edward Farley

Book Overview

'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 beauty and a theological analysis of the image of God and redemption to counter the centuries-long tendency to ignore or marginalize beauty and the aesthetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754604543
• ISBN13: 9780754604549
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.