Grace and necessity : reflections on art and love

著者

書誌事項

Grace and necessity : reflections on art and love

Rowan Williams

Morehouse, 2005

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全3件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

First delivered as lectures in Cambridge in February and March of 2005

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In his first major new work of original theology for some years, Rowan Williams explores the borderlands between theology, art and literature in order to pioneer a new theological expression of grace and human creativity. Profoundly influenced by some of the most original and creative minds in the recent catholic tradition (Jacques Maritain, the artist Eric Gill and the poet and painter David Jones), he explores a new aesthetic and the concept of an artwork as a structure in itself and not as a 'reproduction'. The sign or symbol, whether verbal or material, is a necessary vehicle of meaning and not an illustration of it, calling not for reduction or explanation but response. In Dr Williams' development of his theme he discusses modern philosophy (Wittgenstein's aesthetics) but also examines modern art, the work of the American writer Flannery O'Connor and the writings of the poet and artist David Jones on art and sacrament and the underlying theology of artistic production. To find such influences on an Archbishop of Canterbury is unusual to say the least. But Rowan Williams is unusual. A Welshman, a published poet, who almost became a Roman Catholic monk. A man who did his doctoral research on Vladimir Losky, a Russian orthodox theologian, and yet who finds time to write original theology. This is an Archbishop who is also pioneering intellectual renewal in the Christian Churches.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Exploration of aesthetics: covering artists as wide ranging as Gwen John, Jean Cocteau and the writings of Jacques Maritain. 2. Art and Sacrament: The Anglo-Saxon response to the ideas of Continental thinking in the 20th century. 3. The US Response: Flannery O'Connor. 4. Art and Intelligence. Towards a new theology.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ