The Community of the Beautiful: A Theological Aesthetics (Theology)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814659233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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With the publication of The Community of the Beautiful, professor García-Rivera joins the ranks of major theologians in the United States; and in the true spirit of mestizaje, his work not only endows Hispanic-American theology with new depth of insight, but it also enriches theologically the entire Church. It simultaneously advances both Hispanic American and Euro-American theology by setting those two cultural and theological traditions into a remarkably creative and speculative dialogue.
Tidewater said Groundbreaking theology. A Roman Catholic theologian who has delved into the deep, deep works of Charles Sanders Peirce deserves to be read, and this book certainly does. It is a big first step toward making sense of the American experience without having to fall back on Euro-centric theological/philosophical traditions as a basis for thought.Charles . Five Stars Amazon Customer Wonderfully complex and interesting. Provides an insight to a world of theology that we often ignore
The final transcendental, the beautiful, enters into conversation with the semiotic aesthetics of Jan Mukarovsky and the religious experience of the Latin American Church to become the dazzling Vision of the community of the beautiful, God's community.Chapters are "Pied Beauty," "A Different Beauty," "Seeing the Form," "The Community of the True," "The Community of the Good," "The Community of the Beautiful," and "Lifting up the Lowly."Alejandro R. Garcia-Rivera recasts the question of theological aesthetics posed above in light of the religious experience of the Latin Church of the Americas so that the question becomes: What moves the human heart?To answer that question, Garcia-Rivera draws on along-ignored philosophical tradition. The experience of a particular living ecclesial tradition, the Latin Church of the Americas, may be a guide to a world that lost its confidence in the religious dimensions of the beautiful. Yet today hundreds of theological treatises continue to speak solely of the "truth" of their claims. The Community of the Beautiful addresses this silence with a proposal about the relationship between God and the beautiful. The philosophical