Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature

by Kathryn B. Alexander

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451472233
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	08/01/2014
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Natural Beauty: A Theological History 11

2 Nature-Beauty and Salvation 57

3 Nature Revealed: Religious Insight in the Art of Andy Goldsworthy 99

4 A Theological Aesthetics of Nature 119

Conclusion: Saving Beauty 145

Bibliography 147

Index 159