Theological Aesthetics: A Reader Author: Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen, ed. Retail Price: $36.00 Our Price: $26.99 Save: 9.01 (25.03%) Availability: In Stock        A superb sourcebook, Theological Aesthetics: A Reader brings together original texts that are relevant and timely to scholars today. Editor Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen has taken a careful, inclusive approach to the book, including articles and extracts that are diverse and ecumenical as well as representative of gender and ethnicity. The book is organized chronologically, and each historical period begins with commentary by Thiessen that sets the selections in context. These engaging readings range broadly over themes at the intersection of religion and the arts, including beauty and revelation, the vision of God, artistic and divine creation, God as artist, images of God, the interplay of the senses and the intellect, human imagination, mystical writings, meanings of signs and symbols, worship, liturgy, doxology, the relationship of word and image, icons and iconoclasm, the role of the arts in twentieth-century theology, and much more. Similar Items you may enjoy! The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics Volume #3: Studies in Theological Style: Lay Styles Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar Our Price: $36.99 The Community of the Beautiful: A Theological Aesthetics Author: Alexandro Garcia Rivera Our Price: $24.95 The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics Volume #2 Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar Our Price: $37.99 Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics Volume #1 Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar Our Price: $36.99