Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9780367029050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 292 str.

Sarah Covington; Kathryn Reklis

Opis

Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts is the first study of its kind, containing essays that address Protestantism and the fine arts (visual art, music, literature, and architecture), and historical and contemporary Protestant theological perspectives on the subject of beauty and imagination.

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1 Introduction, by Kathryn Reklis; 2 God, Language and the Use of the Senses: The Emergence of a Protestant Aesthetic in the Early Modern Period, by William Dyrness; 3 Protestant Paintings: Artworks by Lucas Cranach and His Workshop, by Christiane Andersson; 4 Tradition and Invention: German Lutheran Church Architecture, by Emily Fisher Gray; 5 Forbidden Fruit? Protestant Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life, by Julie Berger Hochstrasser; 6 Anti-Papal Aesthetics and the Gunpowder Plot: Staging Barnabe Barnes’ The Devil’s Charter, by Adrian Streete; 7 Unintended Aesthetics? The Artistic Afterlives of Protestant Iconoclasm, by Sarah Covington; 8 Isaac Watts and the Theological Aesthetics of Evangelical Sacred Song, by Stephen A. Marini; 9 Beauty and the Protestant Body: Aesthetic Abstraction in Jonathan Edwards, by Kathryn Reklis; 10 Theology and Aesthetics in the Early Nineteenth Century: Kierkegaard’s Alternative to Hegel and Romanticism, by Lee C. Barrett
11 Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Word of God, Mozart & Aesthetics in Four Movements, by Paul Louis Metzger; 12 The Protestant Encounter with Modern Architecture, by Gretchen T. Buggeln; 13  Jazz Religious and Secular, by Jason C. Bivins; 14  “Gorgeousness inheres in anything”: The Protestant Origins of John Updike and Marilynne Robinson’s Aesthetics of the Ordinary, by Alex Engebretson; 15  Black Protestantism and the Aesthetics of Autonomy: A Decolonial Theological Reflection, by Rufus Burnett; 16  The Borderlands Aesthetics of Mexican-American Pentecostalism, by Lloyd Barba; 17  Embodied Aesthetics and Transnational Korean Protestant Christianity, by Minjung Noh; 18 Conclusion, by Sarah Covington