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1 online resource |
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Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism |
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Contemporary theological explorations in mysticism.
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction: Art, articulation and Incarnation: Mystical theology and seeing the invisible / HELEN APPLETON -- part PART I Art, aesthetics and mysticism in theory and practice -- chapter 1 Beneath the surface: Whose phenomenology? Which art? / KATE KIRKPATRICK -- chapter 2 Art and inarticulacy / BILL PROSSER -- chapter 3 Art, contemplation and intellectus: Aquinas and Gadamer in conversation / RIK VAN NIEUWENHOVE -- part PART II Art, mysticism and the everyday -- chapter 4 Jan van Eyck and the active mysticism of the Devotio Moderna / INIGO BOCKEN -- chapter 5 Art and mysticism as horticulture: Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries in an interdisciplinary perspective / BARBARA BAERT -- chapter 6 Medieval Pop: Warhol's Byzantine iconography / JEWELL HOMAD JOHNSON -- part PART III M etaphor, making and transcendence -- chapter 7 An artist's notes on the art and the articulation of the mystical moment / SHEILA GALLAGHER -- chapter 8 The Desert of Religion: A voice and images in the wilderness / ANNE MOURON -- chapter 9 'Bon Jhesu, sainctefie ces deux, conjoins ensamble par sacrement de mariage': Le rapport entre le texte et l'image dans le Livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage et du réconfort des dames mariees de Philippe de Mézières / ANNA LOBA -- part PART IV Into the darkness -- chapter 10 'It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there' / BERNARD McGINN -- chapter 11 Visions of the otherworld: The accounts of Fursey and Dryhthelm in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and the Homilies of Ælfric / ROBERTA BASSI -- chapter 12 The gaze of divine sorrow: Envisioning mystical union with Dürer, Cusa and the Theologia Germanica / SIMON D. PODMORE |
| Summary |
From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early medieval period onwards, is also filled with images of God that likewise refracts and reflects His glory. This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin this artistic engagement with Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology. The book features contributions from an international panel of leading academics, and is divided into four sections. The first section offers theoretical and philosophical considerations of mystical aesthetics and the interplay between mysticism and art. The final three sections investigate this interplay between the arts and mysticism from three key vantage points. The purpose of the volume is to explore this rarely considered yet crucial interface between art and mysticism. It is therefore an important and illuminating collection of scholarship that will appeal to scholars of theology and Christian mysticism as much as those who study literature, the arts and art history |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mysticism and art -- History
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Mysticism in art -- History
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Christianity and art -- History
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ART -- History -- General.
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Christianity and art.
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Mysticism and art.
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Mysticism in art.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Appleton, Helen, editor
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| ISBN |
9781351765145 |
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1351765140 |
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9781315195803 |
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1315195801 |
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9781315195803 |
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9781351765152 |
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1351765132 |
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9781351765138 |
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1351765159 |
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9781351765152 |
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