Theology and the Arts: Encountering God through Music, Art and Rhetoric

Richard Viladesau's book takes a look at an inviting topic that has come into increasing prominence in a number of fields lately—including theology. Theology and the Arts explores, in a timely and engaging manner, several aspects of the relations between theology and aesthetics, in both the pastoral and academic realms. The underlying motif of this work is that beauty is a means of divine revelation, and that art is the human mediation that both enables and limits its revelatory power.

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