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Portal of Beauty
Towards a Theology of Aesthetics
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Artikel-Nr:
9780802832801
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2008
Seiten:
130
Autor:
Bruno Forte
Gewicht:
201 g
Format:
229x152x8 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Bruno Forte is Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy. He hasalso served as professor of systematic theology at thePontifical Theological Faculty of Naples, Italy, as amember of the International Theological Commission of theHoly See, and as a consultant of the Pontifical Council forCulture. "
A famous Italian theologian's eloquent reflections on beauty and God."Beauty is an event: it happens when the Whole, the All, offers itself to us in the fragment, when the Infinite makes itself little." This is how Bruno Forte describes the long-held Christian tradition that traces beauty back to God and sees God as the source of all beauty. But, he questions, is this really possible? How can the limitless inhabit what is little? In The Portal of Beauty Forte examines the deep, though not always obvious, contribution of theological thought -- from the minds of such luminaries as Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Balthasar, and Evdokimov -- to the understanding and experience of beauty.