What is the theological significance of art? Why has the Church always encouraged the arts? What is so profoundly human about the arts? the answer to these questions involves a series of "sketches," a mixed spiritual/theological reflection on various works of art written in a poetic style that should appeal to the professional theologian but is aimed at the informed public. The reflections explore the relationship between the spiritual and the arts in its many dimensions.
What is the theological significance of art? Why has the Church always encouraged the arts? What is so profoundly human about the arts? the answer to ...
Alejandro R. Garcia-Rivera Donald L. Gelpi Alex Garcia-Rivera
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner
The claim has been made that we are gripped today in an aesthetic crisis" with considerable theological ramifications. Aesthetics, which has existed since the first human heart was moved by the influence of the beautiful, has played a major role, both implicit and explicit, in theological reflection. In The Community of the Beautiful Alejandro Garcia-Rivera draws from the North American philosophical tradition and Hispanic theological thought to propose a new aesthetic principle: a redemptive building of the community of the...
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner
The claim has been made that we are gripped today in an aesthetic crisis" with considerable...
