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Karl Rahner’s Writings on Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

Dr Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2023
This book is made up of a collection of texts unavailable in one volume until now, including six previously untranslated essays, from a major theologian of the twentieth century.Rahner's numerous writings focused on the revelation of God as mystery in the world and on the human being who has an essential openness towards the transcendent. His articles reveal an empathy and a depth of insight into the relationship between theology, faith and the arts which are remarkable and may take the reader by surprise. More recently, Rahner's contribution to the growing field of theology and the arts has been recognised by leading theologians on this subject. He asserts that theology must integrate the verbal and non-verbal arts as they are authentic means of human self-expression, of religious experience, and of God's self-communication; and therefore they are essential sources of theology. Rahner argues that theology, understood as a person's 'reflexive self-expression' about him- or herself 'in the light of divine revelation', cannot be regarded as complete until 'the arts become an intrinsic moment of theology itself'.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780567701848
ISBN-10: 0567701840
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția T&T Clark
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Fills the gap in Rahner studies and in the interdisciplinary field of theology and the arts

Notă biografică

Gesa E. Thiessen lectured for many years at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin. An Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin, Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury, and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, she has published widely on theology and the arts and on ecumenical ecclesiology. She is a non-stipendiary minister in the Lutheran Church in Ireland.

Cuprins

ForewordIntroduction: Karl Rahner, Theology and the Arts Part 1 Prelude - Faith, Culture, Theology, and the Senses 1. Faith and Culture 2. On the Theology of Books 3. God's Word and Human Books 4. The Theology of the Symbol 5. Seeing and Hearing Part 2 On Literature 6. Priest and Poet 7. Poetry and the Christian 8. On the Task of the Writer in Relation to Christian Living 9. On the Greatness and the Plight of the Christian Writer Part 3 On Visual Art and Architecture10. Theology and the Arts 11. Art against the Horizon of Theology and Piety 12. The Theology of the Religious Meaning of Images 13. Church Building: On Modern Church Architecture Part 4 On Music14. Word and Music in Church15. What Do the Beatles sing?16. An Ordinary Song Postlude17. Prayer for Creative ThinkersBibliography Index

Recenzii

If asked to name major twentieth century theologians who also wrote on aesthetics, mention would certainly need to be made of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jack Maritain and Paul Tillich, and perhaps also of occasional pieces by Karl Barth and Hans Küng among others. But hitherto not even the latter minimum has been available in the case of Karl Rahner, and that despite the fact that of all theologians of the period he was the most open to the activity of the Spirit in the wider world. Gesa Thiessen has at last rectified this defect in her splendid collection and translation of occasional pieces by Rahner on the subject. While most of the extracts discuss how the words of poets can operate like 'gates into infinity,' the other arts are not ignored. Much more than 'mere illustration,' they confirm how the arts, like theology, are an experience of grace, opening individuals to the transcendent.
Premiere theologians expand the traditional boundaries of theology with an eye to the human experiences as manifested in the arts. Gesa E. Thiessen highlights these elements in Karl Rahner's oeuvre by collecting his commentaries on the visual arts, poetry, literature, and music even unto Stravinsky and the Beatles into this superb volume.
Gesa Thiessen has given us a wonderful gift in these remarkable but often overlooked works by Karl Rahner on the validity and importance of non-verbal modes of doing theology. Rahner's trust in the capacity of the arts to be a means by which humans encounter and understand the divine is foundational and just as relevant to contemporary theological reflection as it was in his time.