Creation's Beauty as Revelation
Toward a Creational Theology of Natural Beauty
With an interdisciplinary approach, Edwards utilizes literature, aesthetics, world religions, and continental philosophy as avenues into the theology of natural beauty. This is an epistemological look at our aesthetically charged knowing of God through nature. Emphasizing our embodied experience of the world, Edwards examines the phenomenon of perceptual beauty, while questioning traditional notions of God's metaphysical beauty. Drawing upon Michael Polanyi's philosophy of science, Edwards explores the human aesthetic and religious interface with the natural world. This philosophical approach is then linked to the poetic: Polanyi's tacit know…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63087-366-0
- EAN: 9781630873660
- Produktnummer: 30238601
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'410 KB
Über den Autor
L. Clifton Edwards is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Hawai'i Pacific University. His work has appeared in Theology Today, Irish Theological Quarterly, and American Theological Inquiry. He grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and since then has lived in other beautiful places including Alaska, Scotland, and currently, Hawai'i.
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