Beauty and Holiness : : The Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion / / James Alfred Martin.

In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to "worship the Lord in the be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1990
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1033
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. The Holiness of Beauty and the Beauty of Holiness Classical Western Formulations
  • II. The Emergence of Aesthetics and Religion in Western Thought
  • III. Holiness and Beauty in Modern Theories of Religion
  • IV. Aesthetics and Religion in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
  • V. Holiness and Beauty in Eastern Thought
  • VI. The Contemporary Debate about the End(s) of Art and the End(s) of Religion
  • VII. Beyond the End of Art and the End of Religion
  • Notes
  • Index