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Through the Dark Field

The Incarnation Through an Aesthetics of Vulnerability

by Susie Paulik Babka

  • Paperback
  • 328 pages
  • Publisher: Liturgical Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

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For theologians and art lovers seeking deeper understanding

Challenges traditional views on faith and aesthetics

You will gain fresh insights into God's human experience

This insightful book reexamines the incarnation through art and vulnerability.

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Theological discourse in the West has consistently valued the word over the image. Aesthetics, which discerns the criteria and value of the beautiful and what "pleases the senses," is the discipline that prioritizes sensual intelligence over the rational; this book advocates a reconsideration of the doctrine of the incarnation through an aesthetics of vulnerability, in which the ethical optics of attention to the vulnerable other becomes the standpoint in which to ponder the significance of "God became human." Relying on such diverse thinkers as Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Karl Rahner, and Masao Abe, this book explores visual art, images, and poetry as theological sources, designating what Blanchot called "a region where impossibility is no longer deprivation, but affirmation."
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  • Author

    Susie Paulik Babka

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Liturgical Press

  • Published

    September 2016

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    328

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780814680735

  • ISBN-10

    0814680739

  • Eden Code

    4451181

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