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The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth

by: Hart, David Bentley

The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth

by: Hart, David Bentley

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9780802812544
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Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/01/2003
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
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The Beauty of the Infinite is an extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence - both philosophical and literal - characteristic of the postmodern world.

Introduction	p. 1
The Question	p. 1
Terms Employed	p. 5
Beauty	p. 15
Final Remarks	p. 29
Dionysus against the Crucified: The Violence of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Violence	p. 35
The City and the Wastes	p. 35
The Veil of the Sublime	p. 43
The Will to Power	p. 93
The Covenant of Light	p. 125
The Beauty of the Infinite: A Dogmatica Minora	p. 153
Trinity	p. 155
The Christian understanding of beauty emerges not only naturally, but necessarily, from the Christian understanding of God as a perichoresis of love, a dynamic coinherence of the three divine persons, whose life is eternally one of shared regard, delight, fellowship, feasting, and joy	p. 155
Divine Apatheia	p. 155
Divine Fellowship	p. 168
Divine Joy	p. 175
The Christian understanding of difference and distance is shaped by the doctrine of the Trinity, where theology finds that the true form of difference is peace, of distance beauty	p. 178
Divine Difference	p. 179
Divine Perfection	p. 183
In the Christian God, the infinite is seen to be beautiful and so capable of being traversed by way of the beautiful	p. 187
Desire's Flight	p. 188
Changeless Beauty	p. 192
The Mirror of the Infinite	p. 201
Infinite Peace	p. 207
The infinite is beautiful because God is Trinity; and because all being belongs to God's infinity, a Christian ontology appears and properly belongs within a theological aesthetics	p. 211
God and Being	p. 212
God beyond Being	p. 229
Analogia Entis	p. 241
Creation	p. 249
God's gracious action in creation belongs from the first to that delight, pleasure, and regard that the Trinity enjoys from eternity, as an outward and unnecessary expression of that love; and thus creation must be received before all else as gift and as beauty	p. 249
Analogia Delectationis	p. 250
The Gift	p. 260
Desire's Power	p. 269
As God is Trinity, in whom all difference is possessed as perfect peace and unity, the divine life might be described as infinite music, and creation too might be described as a music whose intervals, transitions, and phrases are embraced within God's eternal, triune polyphony	p. 274
The Divine Theme	p. 275
Divine Counterpoint	p. 282
As God utters himself eternally in his Word, and possesses all the fullness of address and response, and as creation belongs to God's utterance of himself (as a further articulation, at an analogical remove, of the abundant "eloquence" of divine love), creation may be grasped by theology as language	p. 289
Divine Expression	p. 291
Divine Rhetoric	p. 295
Analogia Verbi	p. 300
Salvation	p. 318
Salvation occurs by way of recapitulation, the restoration of the human image in Christ, the eternal image of the Father after whom humanity was created in the beginning; thus salvation consists in the recovery of a concrete form, and in the restoration of an original beauty	p. 318
The Form of Distance	p. 320
Christ the Sign	p. 327
"What Is Truth?"	p. 331
The Practice of the Form	p. 338
In Christ, totality's economy of violence is overcome by the infinity of God's peace, inasmuch as one order of sacrifice is overcome by another: sacrifice as the immolation of the beautiful is displaced by a sacrifice whose offering is one of infinite beauty	p. 344
The Economy of Violence	p. 346
A Gift Exceeding Every Debt	p. 360
The Consolations of Tragedy, the Terrors of Easter	p. 373
Eschaton	p. 395
Christian eschatology affirms the goodness of created difference, reveals divine truth to be inseparable from beauty, and exposes the totality as false and marked with a damnable finitude	p. 395
Time's Surface, Eternity's Light	p. 396
The Last Adam	p. 402
Rhetoric without Reserve: Persuasion, the Tyranny of Twilight, and the Language of Peace	p. 413
The War of Persuasions	p. 413
The Violence of Hermeneutics	p. 417
The Optics of the Market	p. 431
The Gift of Martyrs	p. 439
Index	p. 445
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