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Martin, James Alfred, 1917-2007,

Beauty and Holiness : the Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (232 pages) - Princeton Legacy Library . - Princeton legacy library. .

Cover; Contents; The Bible; Plato; Aristotle; Augustine; Thomas Aquinas; Jonathan Edwards; Hume; Kant; Schiller; Schlegel; Schelling; Schleiermacher; Hegel; Otto; Eliade; Van Der Leeuw; Tillich; Geertz; Santayana; Dewey; Whitehead; Heidegger; Wittgenstein; India; China; Japan.

In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to ""worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness"" addressed a tradition that has comprehended holiness primarily in terms of ethical righteousness--a conception that has strongly influenced Western understandings of religion. As the author points out, however, the Greek forbears of Western thought, as well as many Eastern traditio

ISBN: 9781400860593 1400860598

Source: 22573/ctt73697c JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aesthetics--Religious aspects.
Art and religion.
Esthétique--Aspect religieux.
Art et religion.
PHILOSOPHY--Religious.
PHILOSOPHY--Metaphysics.
Aesthetics--Religious aspects
Art and religion

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BL65.A4

Dewey Class. No.: 111.85