The Folly of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts in Early Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780190876005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Richard Viladesau

Opis

The Folly of the Cross is the fourth book in Richard Viladesau's series examining the aesthetics and theology of the cross through Christian history. Previous volumes have brought the story up through the Baroque era. This new book examines the reception of the message of the cross from the European Enlightenment to the turn of the twentieth century.

Recenzje

This is a very rich historical study of what theologians (but not preachers) and artists (generally painters) made of the passion of Christ in early modernity. Like others, I hope that Viladesau will complete his masterly work with a fifth volume examining the cross in modernity.

O autorze

Richard Viladesau is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Fordham University.