TY - BOOK AU - Torevell,David TI - Liturgy and the beauty of the unknown: another place SN - 9780754686798 AV - BX1975 .T65 2007eb U1 - 264.001 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Catholic Church KW - Liturgy KW - Église catholique KW - Liturgie KW - fast KW - Liturgical movement KW - Aesthetics KW - Religious aspects KW - Esthétique KW - Aspect religieux KW - RELIGION KW - Institutions & Organizations KW - bisacsh KW - Christian Rituals & Practice KW - Worship & Liturgy KW - Liturgics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index; The movement of return -- The movement of interiority -- The movement in the image -- The movement of desire -- The movement towards silent mystery -- The movement of aesthetics N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=269524 ER -