Religion and the Arts in Western Culture
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
This insightful book explores the web of relationships between religion and the arts throughout the history of Western culture, from biblical times into the postmodern era. Covering a wide range of important topics, from the mutual influences of religion and the arts on each other to how philosophers and theologians have understood the nature of beauty and the place of the visual and performing arts in contemporary Christian faith and practice. Most importantly the Mills guides his readers in understanding how the arts are an integral component of a biblical worldview.
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Top Highlights
“In other words, Plato understands beauty as something that exists within the object, not in the eye of the beholder. Therefore, Plato holds to what we have described as an ‘objective’ understanding of the nature of beauty.” (Page 43)
“General revelation may be described as ‘God’s communication of himself to all persons at all times and in all places” (Page 25)
“A good, short definition of revelation is ‘the significant self -disclosure of God to man.’” (Page 23)
“For Plato, Beauty, like Truth and Goodness, eternally existed apart from the material world” (Page 43)
“ Emphasis was placed upon the glory of man instead of upon the glory of God” (Page 87)
- Title: Religion and the Arts in Western Culture
- Author: Robert Mills
- Publisher: Gallus Academic Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Textbooks
- ISBNs: 9781466797673, 1466797673
- Resource ID: LLS:WS_3DEFE733F03244378D6F2452BD633CE0
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T04:07:26Z