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Author King, Jonathan

Title The Beauty of the Lord : Theology as Aesthetics / Jonathan King
Published Ashland : Lexham Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (586 pages)
Series Studies in Historic and Systematic Theology
Studies in Historic and Systematic Theology
Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Theologies of Aesthetics; The Path Forward in Academics and Scholarship for Theological Aesthetics; A Classicist Theory of Beauty; Beauty among the Transcendentals of Being; Summary of Overall Argument; Synopsis; Chapter 2: Beauty Triune; Theologians' Positions on Divine Beauty; Anselm of Canterbury on Divine Beauty; Thomas Aquinas on Divine Beauty; Herman Bavinck on Divine Beauty; Karl Barth on Divine Beauty; Beauty-A Divine Attribute?; Beauty and Divine Simplicity
The Relation between Beauty and God's GloryDefining God's Glory; Defining the Relation between Beauty and God's Glory; The Relation between Beauty and God's Beatitude; The Relation of Divine Beatitude to Transcendental Truth, Goodness, and Beauty; The Immanent Form of the Godhead's Beauty; The Fittingness of God the Son as Incarnate Redeemer; The Fittingness of the Trinity Operating Economically; The Theodramatic Fittingness of the Son as Incarnate Redeemer; Primary Symmetry 1; Primary Symmetry 2; Primary Symmetry 3; The Immanent Fittingness of the Son in the Ordered Triunity of God
Chapter 3: Creation: Beauty's DebutSublime Comedy: The Theodramatic Form of the Divine Plan; The Irenaean Form of the Theodrama; The Proto-eschaton: The Beginning of the Telos of All Things; God's Delight in His Beautiful Work of Creation; Sacred Time: The Climactic Sabbath of the Creation Week; Sacred Space: The Garden of Eden as the Archetypal Temple-Sanctuary; Humans in the Image of God; The Glory of the Image of God in Humans; The Official Aspect of the Image of God; The Constitutional Aspect of the Image of God; The Ethical-Relational Aspect of the Image of God
The Radical Fall from Adam and Eve's Original Image-Bearing GloryFittingness of Retributive Justice; Conspectus; Chapter 4: The Incarnation: Beauty Condescending; Hans Urs Von Balthasar on Divine Beauty; Christ the Image of God; Christ the Form of a Slave; Philippians 2:6-8 Exegetically Unpacked; The Unmitigated Beauty of Christ While in the Form of a Slave; The Revealing and Concealing Dialectic of Christ's Glory; Conspectus; Christ the Last Adam and the True Israel; Christ the Last Adam; Christ the Last Adam in Romans 5:12-21; Christ the Last Adam in 1 Corinthians 15:44-49
Christ the True IsraelChrist the True Israel Recapitulated in the Baptism of Jesus; Christ the True Israel Recapitulated in the Temptation of Jesus; Conspectus; Christ the Transfigured; The Redemptive-Historical Fittingness of the Transfiguration; Continuity Backward to Moses-Mount Sinai; Continuity Forward to Eschatological Hope; Epiphanic Significance of Jesus' Sonship; Implicit Eschatological Anthropology; Conspectus; Excursus: Theological Aesthetic of Isaiah 53:2; Chapter 5: The Cross: Beauty Redeeming; The Depth of Beauty in the Form of the Cross
Notes The Fittingness of Christ's High Priestly Mediatorship
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Subject Christian art and symbolism.
Aesthetics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christianity and the arts.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Aesthetics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Christian art and symbolism
Christianity and the arts
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781683590590
1683590597