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Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste
Frank Burch Brown
其他書名
Aesthetics in Religious Life
出版Oxford University Press, 2000-09-28
主題Religion / Christian Theology / GeneralPhilosophy / Aesthetics
ISBN01953439649780195343960
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qVw39GHB6HwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment--a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has "teeth but no fangs." While grounded in history and theory, this book takes up such practical questions as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music that is worldly in origin into a house of worship? How can the exercise of taste in the making of art be a viable (and sometimes advanced) spiritual discipline? In exploring the complex relation between taste, religious imagination, and faith, Brown offers a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious, and indeed Christian.