Beauty and holiness: the dialogue between aesthetics and religion
Auteur :
Jr., James Alfred Martin,, Jr.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691603483
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
331 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to "worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" addressed a tradition that has compre