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Theology, aesthetics, and culture : responses to the work of David Brown
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Theology, aesthetics, and culture : responses to the work of David Brown

Author: Robert MacSwain; Taylor Worley
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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British theologian David Brown has published a series of five books on theology and the arts. This volume is a collection of responses to this body of work, and includes essays by prominent philosophers, theologians, biblical, and literary scholars. Together they provide a fresh treatment of theology, aesthetics and popular culture.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Named Person: David Brown
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Robert MacSwain; Taylor Worley
OCLC Number: 815492689
Description: 1 online resource (313 p., [3] p. of col. plates :) col.ill.
Contents: Introduction: Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture ; I: TRADITION AND IMAGINATION: REVELATION AND CHANGE ; 1. Scripture, Tradition, and Revelation: An Appreciative Critique of David Brown ; 2. Revelation, Christ, and Fundamental Theology: David Brown and Karl Rahner in Dialogue ; 3. The Resurrection of Body: Reimagining Human Personhood in Christian Tradition ; II: DISCIPLESHIP AND IMAGINATION: CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND TRUTH ; 4. Saints Before and After Death ; 5. From Ethics to Eschatology: The Continuing Validity of the New Eve for Christian Doctrine and Discipleship ; 6. Revelation Imagined: Fiction, Truth, and Transformation ; III: GOD AND ENCHANTMENT OF PLACE: RECLAIMING HUMAN EXPERIENCE ; 7. Enchantment and Transcendence: David Brown on Art and Architecture ; 8. Transcending Place and Time: A Response to David Brown on Enchantment, Epistemology, and Experience ; 9. Re-enchanting the World: The Possibility of Materially-Mediated Religious Experience ; IV: GOD AND GRACE OF BODY: SACRAMENT IN ORDINARY ; 10. I am the Dance : Towards an Earthed Christianity ; 11. Openness and Specificity: A Conversation with David Brown on Theology and Classical Music ; 12. Infinite Hospitality and the Redemption of Kitsch ; 13. Were We Ever Secular?: Interrogating David Brown on Gospel, Blues, and Pop Music ; 14. What if David Brown Had Owned a Television? ; 15. After Ascension: The Body of Christ, Kenosis, and Divine Impassiblity ; V: GOD AND MYSTERY IN WORDS: EXPERIENCE THROUGH METAPHOR AND DRAMA ; 16. A sensibility for the infinite : Metaphor, Symbol, Form, and the Sublime ; 17. Lectio Divina? ; 18. The Density of Divine Address: Liturgy, Drama, and Human Transformation ; 19. The Liturgical Body and the Gift of Presence ; Response: Experience, Symbol, and Revelation: Continuing the Conversation ; Postscript: On Theology's Ekphrastic Mode
Responsibility: edited by Robert Macswain and Taylor Worley.

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