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The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth »
Authors: David Bentley Hart
ISBN-13: 9780802829214, ISBN-10: 080282921X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: David Bentley Hart
Book Synopsis
The Beauty of the Infinite is a extended essay in "theological aesthetics." 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.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| I | The Question | 1 |
| II | Terms Employed | 5 |
| III | Beauty | 15 |
| IV | Final Remarks | 29 |
| Pt. 1 | Dionysus against the Crucified | 35 |
| The Violence of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Violence | ||
| I | The City and the Wastes | 35 |
| II | The View of the Sublime | 43 |
| III | The Will to Power | 93 |
| IV | The Covenant of Light | 125 |
| Pt. 2 | The Beauty of the Infinite | 153 |
| A Dogmatica Minora | ||
| I | Trinity | 155 |
| II | Creation | 249 |
| III | Salvation | 318 |
| IV | Eschaton | 395 |
| Pt. 3 | Rhetoric without Reserve | 413 |
| Persuasion, the Tyranny of Twilight, and the Language of Peace | 413 | |
| I | The War of Persuasions | 413 |
| II | The Violence of Hermeneutics | 417 |
| III | The Optics of the Market | 431 |
| IV | The Gift of Martyrs | 439 |
| Index | 445 |
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