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Liturgy And The Beauty Of The Unknown

  • Paperback
  • 212 pages
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

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For those interested in beauty and worship.

Shows how liturgy communicates divine beauty.

Guides you toward a deeper aesthetic experience.

This insightful work explores how the beauty of liturgy reflects the divine and fosters profound personal transformation.

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Contemporary culture is rediscovering the importance of beauty for both social transformation and personal happiness. Theologians have sought, in their varied ways, to demonstrate how God's beauty is associated with notions of truth and goodness. This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy is the means par excellence by which an experience of beauty is communicated. Drawing from both secular and religious understandings, in particular the mystical and apophatic tradition, the book demonstrates how liturgy has the potential to achieve the one ultimately reliable form of beauty because its embodied components are able to reflect the disturbing beauty of the One to whom worship is always offered. Such components rely on understanding the aesthetic dynamics upon which liturgy relies. This book draws from a broad range of disciplines concerned with understanding beauty and self-transformation and concludes that while secular utopian forms have much to contribute to ethical transformation, they ultimately fail since they lack the Christological and eschatological framework needed, which liturgy alone provides.
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  • Title

    Liturgy And The Beauty Of The Unknown

  • Author

    David Torevell

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Taylor & Francis Ltd

  • Published

    June 2021

  • Weight

    312g

  • Page Count

    212

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781032099668

  • ISBN-10

    1032099666

  • Eden Code

    5586549