Liturgy and the beauty of the unknown : another place /
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 achi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2007
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754686798 0754686795 0754633039 9780754633037 1351921835 9781351921831 1315250365 9781315250366 9786611208400 6611208402 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
