Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture

Responses to the Work of David Brown
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-964682-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

David Brown is a widely-respected British theologian who initially made his mark in analytic discussions of Christian doctrine, such as the Trinity. However, with the publication of Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change (1999) his career entered a distinctly new phase, focused on theology, imagination, and the arts. Four related volumes followed, dealing with biblical interpretation, Christian discipleship, art and icons, place and space, the body, music, metaphor, drama, liturgy, the sacraments, religious experience, and popular culture. According to Brown, the fundamental thesis underlying all five volumes is that both natural and revealed theology are in crisis, and the only way out is to give proper attention to the cultural embeddedness of both.

Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture is the first attempt to assess the significance of this remarkable series, and its contributors include some of the most prominent philosophers, theologians, historians, biblical scholars, literary scholars, and cultural critics writing today. Aside from its exceptional interdisciplinary range and ecumenical line-up, a distinctive feature is sustained consideration of Browns analysis of popular culture. Given the stature of the contributors, this volume is not merely of interest as a commentary on Browns work, but also makes an important original contribution to our understandings of theology, aesthetics, and culture as they relate to the life of the Church, academy, and human society.

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of theology and the arts; theology and popular culture

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacSwain, Robert

Worley, Taylor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture

- I: Tradition and Imagination: Revelation and Change

- 1: William J. Abraham: Scripture, Tradition, and Revelation: An Appreciative Critique of David Brown

- 2: Richard Viladesau: Revelation, Christ, and Fundamental Theology: David Brown and Karl Rahner in Dialogue

- 3: Margaret R. Miles: The Resurrection of Body: Reimagining Human Personhood in Christian Tradition

- II: Discipleship and Imagination: Christian Tradition and Truth

- 4: Richard Bauckham: Saints Before and After Death

- 5: Tina Beattie: From Ethics to Eschatology: The Continuing Validity of the New Eve for Christian Doctrine and Discipleship

- 6: Douglas Hedley: Revelation Imagined: Fiction, Truth, and Transformation

- III: God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience

- 7: Gordon Graham: Enchantment and Transcendence: David Brown on Art and Architecture

- 8: Charles Taliaferro: Transcending Place and Time: A Response to David Brown on Enchantment, Epistemology, and Experience

- 9: Mark Wynn: Re-enchanting the World: The Possibility of Materially-Mediated Religious Experience

- IV: God and Grace of Body: Sacrament in Ordinary

- 10: Kimerer L. LaMothe: I am the Dance: Towards an Earthed Christianity

- 11: Jeremy S. Begbie: Openness and Specificity: A Conversation with David Brown on Theology and Classical Music

- 12: Gavin Hopps: Infinite Hospitality and the Redemption of Kitsch

- 13: Judith S. Casselberry: Were We Ever Secular?: Interrogating David Brown on Gospel, Blues, and Pop Music

- 14: Clive Marsh: What if David Brown Had Owned a Television?

- 15: Graham Ward: After Ascension: The Body of Christ, Kenosis, and Divine Impassiblity

- V: God and Mystery in Words: Experience Through Metaphor and Drama

- 16: David Fuller: A sensibility for the infinite: Metaphor, Symbol, Form, and the Sublime

- 17: Trevor Hart: Lectio Divina?

- 18: Ben Quash: The Density of Divine Address: Liturgy, Drama, and Human Transformation

- 19: Ann Loades and Bridget Nichols: The Liturgical Body and the Gift of Presence

- Response: Experience, Symbol, and Revelation: Continuing the Conversation

- Postscript: On Theology's Ekphrastic Mode

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Robert MacSwain, Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics at The School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee., and Taylor Worley, Associate Dean for Spiritual Life and Assistant Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at The School of Theology and Missions at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.

Contributors:
William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Theology and Wesley Studies and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Richard Bauckham was Professor of New Testament at the University of St Andrews from 1992 to 2007, and Wardlaw Professor from his election to the British Academy in 1998. He is now Professor Emeritus at St Andrews and Senior Scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

Tina Beattie is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Digby Stuart Research Centre for Catholic Studies at Roehampton University.

Jeremy S. Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke University and founding Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts.

David Brown is Professor of Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews, where he is also a Professorial Fellow in the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts.

Judith S. Casselberry is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College.

David Fuller is Emeritus Professor of English and former Chair of the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

Gordon Graham is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he also directs the Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy.

Trevor Hart is Professor of Divinity at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts.

Douglas Hedley is Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College.

Gavin Hopps is Lecturer in Literature and Theology in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews and Associate Director of the Institute for Imagination, Theology and the Arts.

Kimerer L. LaMothe is a philosopher, dancer, and scholar of religion who taught for six years at Brown and Harvard Universities.

Ann Loades is Professor Emerita of Divinity at Durham University, Honorary Professorial Fellow at St Chad's College, and Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.

Robert MacSwain is Assistant Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics at The School of Theology of the University of the South.

Clive Marsh is Senior Lecturer and Director of Learning and Teaching at the Institute of Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester.

Margaret R. Miles is Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, where she also served as Dean and Vice-President of Academic Affairs.

Bridget Nichols is the Lay Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely in the Church of England.

Ben Quash is Professor of Christianity and the Arts at King's College London and Director of the Centre for the Arts and Sacred Traditions.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College.

Richard Viladesau is Professor of Theology at Fordham University and a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York.

Graham Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral.

Taylor Worley is Associate Dean for Spiritual Life and Assistant Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at The School of Theology and Missions at Union University.

Mark Wynn is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Exeter.