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Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature - Softcover

Alexander, Kathryn B.

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9781451472233: Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature
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ISBN 10: 1451472234 ISBN 13: 9781451472233
Publisher: Fortress Press, 2014

Synopsis

Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community.

With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, the volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience. All three types, in fact, are critically necessary, as the author argues, in eliciting hope for ecological redemption. This volume makes a vital contribution to the systematic and philosophical framework for ecological theology, aesthetics, and theological ethics.

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About the Author

Kathryn B. Alexander is associate rector at Christ Episcopal Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. She holds a PhD in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

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Publisher
Fortress Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1451472234
ISBN 13 
9781451472233
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192
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