Transcendence and sensoriness : : perceptions, revelation, and the arts / / edited by Svein Aage Christoffersen [and four others] ; translated from Norwegian and Danish by Frances E. Hopenwasser, Leif Stubbe Teglbjaerg.

• Superior document: Studies in Religion and the Arts, Volume 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Christoffersen, Svein Aage,; Hopenwasser, Frances E.,; Teglbjaerg, Leif Stubbe,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English; Norwegian; Danish
• Series: Studies in religion and the arts ; Volume 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (583 pages) :; illustrations (some color), photographs.
• Notes: Includes index.

Protestant theology and culture are known for a reserved, at times skeptical, attitude to the use of art and aesthetic forms of expression in a religious context. In Transcendence and Sensoriness , this attitude is analysed and discussed both theoretically and through case studies considered in a broad theological and philosophical framework of religious aesthetics. Nordic scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts in order to challenge established perspectives within the aesthetics of religion and theology.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Approaching the sphere of sense perception -- Part 2. Visual art and its basic conditions -- Part 3. Music and transcendence -- Part 4. Transcendence and presence in church architecture -- Part 5. Theological considerations : Imago Dei, grace and resurrection.