Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts
- 292 pages
- English
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Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts
About this book
The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than reject art and aestheticism, Protestants developed their own aesthetic values, which Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts addresses as it identifies and explains the link between theological aesthetics and the arts within a Protestant framework across five-hundred years of history.
Featuring essays from an international gathering of leading experts working across a diverse set of disciplines, Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts is the first study of its kind, containing essays that address Protestantism and the fine arts (visual art, music, literature, and architecture), and historical and contemporary Protestant theological perspectives on the subject of beauty and imagination. Contributors challenge accepted preconceptions relating to the boundaries of theological aesthetics and religiously determined art; disrupt traditional understandings of periodization and disciplinarity; and seek to open rich avenues for new fields of research.
Building on renewed interest in Protestantism in the study of religion and modernity and the return to aesthetics in Christian theological inquiry, this volume will be of significant interest to scholars of Theology, Aesthetics, Art and Architectural History, Literary Criticism, and Religious History.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 God, language, and the use of the senses: the emergence of a Protestant aesthetic in the early modern period
- 3 Protestant paintings: artworks by Lucas Cranach and his workshop
- 4 Tradition and invention: German Lutheran Church architecture
- 5 Forbidden fruit? Protestant aesthetics in seventeenth-century Dutch still life
- 6 Antipapal aesthetics and the Gunpowder Plot: staging Barnabe Barnes’s The Devil’s Charter
- 7 Unintended aesthetics? the artistic afterlives of Protestant iconoclasm
- 8 Isaac Watts and the theological aesthetics of Evangelical Sacred Song
- 9 Beauty and the Protestant body: aesthetic abstraction in Jonathan Edwards
- 10 Theology and aesthetics in the early nineteenth century: Kierkegaard’s alternative to Hegel and Romanticism
- 11 Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Word of God, Mozart, and aesthetics in four movements
- 12 The Protestant encounter with modern architecture
- 13 Jazz religious and secular
- 14 “Gorgeousness inheres in anything”: the Protestant origins of John Updike and Marilynne Robinson’s aesthetics of the ordinary
- 15 Black Protestantism and the aesthetics of autonomy: a decolonial theological reflection
- 16 The borderlands aesthetics of Mexican American Pentecostalism
- 17 Embodied aesthetics and Transnational Korean Protestant Christianity
- Conclusion
- Index