The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth Paperback - 2004
by David Bentley Hart
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The rather prosaic question that initially prompted this long, elliptical essay in theological aesthetics, stated most simply, was this: Is the beauty to whose persuasive power the Christian rhetoric of evangelism inevitably appeals, and upon which it depends, theologically defensible?
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"The Beauty of the Infinite" is a splendid extended essay in btheological aesthetics.b 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.
The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze, Nancy, Levinas, and others. Hart pays special attention to Nietzschebs famous narrative of the bwill to powerb -- a narrative largely adopted by the world today -- and he offers an engaging revision (though not rejection) of the genealogy of nihilism, thereby highlighting the significant binterruptionb that Christian thought introduced into the history of metaphysics.
This discussion sets the stage for a retrieval of the classic Christian account of beauty and sublimity, and of the relation of both to the question of being. Written in the form of a "dogmatica minora," this main section of the book offers a pointed reading of the Christian story in four moments, or parts: Trinity, creation, salvation, and eschaton. Through a combination of narrative and argument throughout, Hart ends up demonstrating the power of Christian metaphysics not only to withstand the critiques of modern and postmodern thought but also to move well beyond them.Strikingly original and deeply rewarding, "The Beauty of the Infinite" is both a constructively critical account of the history of metaphysics and a compelling contribution to it.
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- Title The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
- Author David Bentley Hart
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Sixth
- Pages 462
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.
- Date 2004-10-29
- ISBN 9780802829214 / 080282921X
- Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.22 x 0.98 in (23.88 x 15.80 x 2.49 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
- Dewey Decimal Code 230
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Citations
- Christian Century, 10/19/2010, Page 33
- Commonweal, 12/01/2006, Page 21
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