Karl Barth's analogy of beauty: its basis and implications for theological aesthetics
"This book provides the first comprehensive examination of Karl Barth's view of beauty. For over fifty years scholars have assumed Barth recovered traditional belief in God's beauty but refused to entertain any relationship between this and more familiar natural and artistic beauties....
| Subtitles: | Analogy of beauty |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Barth studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Barth, Karl 1870-1934
/ Analogy
/ Beauty
/ Aesthetics
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBA Dogmatics |
| Further subjects: | B
Barth, Karl (1886-1968)
B Aesthetics Religious aspects Christianity |
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| Summary: | "This book provides the first comprehensive examination of Karl Barth's view of beauty. For over fifty years scholars have assumed Barth recovered traditional belief in God's beauty but refused to entertain any relationship between this and more familiar natural and artistic beauties. Hans Urs von Balthasar was the first to offer this interpretation and his conclusion has been echoed ever since, rendering Barth's view of beauty irrelevant to work in theological aesthetics. This volume continues the late twentieth century revision of Balthasar's interpretation of Barth by arguing that this too is a significant misunderstanding of his theology. Andrew Dunstan demonstrates that, through an encounter with fatalistic forms of Reformed theology, Brunner's charges that his dogmatics were irrelevant and medieval thought, Barth gradually developed an analogy of divine, ecclesial and worldly beauty with all the theological, christocentric and actualistic hallmarks of his previous forms of analogy. This not only yields valuable new insight into Barth's view of analogy but also provides a much needed foundation for a distinctively Protestant and post-Barthian approach to theological aesthetics"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1032109505 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781003217855 |