Living Beauty »

The Christian mystery, celebrated in the Roman Catholic liturgy, is a sensible mystery, and calls out for artistic expression. Living Beauty explores the Christian mystery and points to the need for a liturgical aesthetic as a means to encounter the divine mystery. A liturgical aesthetic gives an account of Christian worship in terms of a new set of categories that includes divine beauty, a theology of sensibility, and the new notion of a unitive revelatory experience.

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction   Alejandro Garcia-Rivera     1
Chapter 1     17
"This Blessed Mess"   Thomas Scirghi     19
"A Sensible Mystery"   Alejandro Garcia-Rivera     35
Chapter 2     61
"What Is Beautiful for God? (What Does God Like?)"   Thomas Scirghi     63
"In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being"   Alejandro Garcia-Rivera     73
Chapter 3     103
"It Is Right to Give God Thanks and Praise"   Thomas Scirghi     105
"The Glory of the Lord"   Alejandro Garcia-Rivera     119
Chapter 4     137
"Go in Peace...Then What?"   Thomas Scirghi     139
"Do This in Memory of Me"   Alejandro Garcia-Rivera     155
Conclusion   Thomas Scirghi     173
Bibliography     189
Index     197
About the Authors     201