Called to Attraction
eBook - ePub

Called to Attraction

An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Called to Attraction

An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty

About this book

What if there is more to beauty than meets the eye? What if beauty named more than the human response to a thing's appearance, but instead named the very presence of God in the world? And what if beauty provided a power enabling human beings to think in novel and creative ways, to see with new eyes? This book explores the various ways in which the Christian theological tradition has provided responses to these questions. Taking its starting point from the view that beauty is above all a divine name, this book explores the consequences that such a starting point has not only for the human experience of beauty but also for the way in which beauty penetrates to the very heart of human nature, uplifting and inspiring human thought and action to ever new frontiers of existence. In its experience of beauty, so this book argues, the human spirit encounters the divine presence in unexpected and transformative ways, such that one may come to see that not only is God beautiful, but God is beauty itself!

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Ancient Origins of Beauty’s Association with God
  5. Chapter 2: The Beauty of God in the Early Church
  6. Chapter 3: Giving God the Name Beauty
  7. Chapter 4: Beauty at the Dawn of the Middle Ages
  8. Chapter 5: The Medieval Theology of Beauty
  9. Chapter 6: The Theology of Beauty in the Modern Period
  10. Chapter 7: The Return of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Theology
  11. Bibliography