Spirit and Beauty
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Hardback
£35.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198267430
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 01/01/1992
Many Christian theologians have associated beauty, both in nature and in art, with the Holy Spirit. They include early Fathers like St Irenaeus and St Clement of Alexandria, and later writers like Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, Sergius Bulgakov and Hans von Balthasar. This book investigates what they said and why. In doing so, it serves as an introduction to theological aesthetics. Besides exploring the connection made between the Holy Spirit and beauty, it ranges more widely by considering topics such as divine glory, inspiration and the eschatological character of inspiration and the eschatological character of beauty.