TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carnes,Natalie
TI  - Beauty: a theological engagement with Gregory of Nyssa 
SN  - 9781630876678
AV  - BT55 .C38 2014eb
U1  - 230 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Eugene, Oregon
PB  - Cascade Books
KW  - Gregorius Nyssenus,
KW  - Gregory,
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Philosophical theology
KW  - Théologie philosophique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index; On Gregory of Nyssa and Beauty: Genealogical Threads -- Story One: Gregory of Annisa, Caesarea, and Nyssa -- Story Two: Beauty of Antiquity, Modernity, and the Present -- Recent Theological Performances of Beauty -- Conclusion -- Beautiful Bodies, Beautiful Words: Signs of a Radically Transcendent God -- Fittingness and Gratuity as an Alternative to Functionality or Disinterestedness -- Initiation: The Work of Rhetoric -- Inspiration: The Work of Making Rhetoric -- Participation: The Beauty of a Radically Transcendent God -- Conclusion -- Rotting Bodies, Bleeding Words: The Beauty of the Word Made Flesh -- Strains on the Ladder -- On Things Unseen and Unseemly -- Seeing the Savior as Seeing the Saved -- Difficulties: Bodies Exposed, Words Deflecting -- Conclusion -- Bodies Luminous and Wounded: The Spirit Manifests the Beauty of the Word -- The Substance of Things Unseen: Two Boxes, Two Crosses Non-identical Identity -- The Wounded Self -- Spiritual Senses for Spiritual Bodies -- The Other Bridegroom -- Macrina's Wound -- From Theory to Theoria
N2  - Beauty engages fourth-century bishop Gregory of Nyssa to address beauty's place in theology and the broader world. With the recent resurgence of attention to beauty among theologians, questions still remain about what exactly beauty is, how it is perceived, and whether we should celebrate its return. If beauty fell out of favor because it was seen to distract from the weightier concerns of poverty and suffering--because it can even be a tool of oppression--why should we laud it now? Gregory's writings offer surprisingly rich and relevant reflections that can move contemporary conversations bey
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