Saving Beauty : A Theological Aesthetics Of Nature

Contents:
Introduction
1: Natural Beauty: A Theological History
2: Nature-Beauty And Salvation
3: Nature Revealed: Religious Insight In The Art Of Andy Goldsworthy
4: A Theological Aesthetics Of Nature
Conclusion: Saving Beauty
Bibliography

Additional Info
Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community.

With interdisciplinary verve, engaging systematic, philosophical, and art theory systems of aesthetics, the volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative, religious, and sacramental experience. All three types, in fact, are critically necessary, as the author argues, in eliciting hope for ecological redemption. This volume makes a vital contribution to the systematic and philosophical framework for ecological theology, aesthetics, and theological ethics.