Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown: Another Place

ISBN-13: 9781032099668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

David Torevell

Opis

This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy is the means par excellence by which an experience of beauty is communicated. Drawing from both secular and religious understandings, in particular the mystical and apophatic tradition, the book demonstrates how liturgy has the potential to achieve the one ultimately reliable form of beauty bec

Recenzje

’The book is well researched and engages extensively with existing literature, both religious and secular, and the historical material that is included is very helpful in placing the argument in wider context. This is a book that does have a very precise argument which is consistently forwarded and expresses the author's own hopes for the future of Roman Catholic liturgy in particular. Its potential application is, however, a good deal wider.’ Theological Book Review ’... this patiently documented and dispassionately argued book... opens up possibilities for forms of worship that would enhance our sense of the beauty of creation in the light of a glimpse of the beauty of that ’other place’, and which are currently almost unimaginable.’ Usus Antiquior

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The movement of return; The movement of interiority; The movement in the image; The movement of desire; The movement towards silent mystery; The movement of aesthetics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

David Torevell is a member of the Theology, Religion and Philosophy Department at Liverpool Hope University, UK.