Beauty engages fourth-century bishop Gregory of Nyssa to address beauty\'s place in theology and the broader world.
It retrieves from Gregory key Trinitarian insights and constructively recasts them in the service of del. --George Pattison, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Beauty is a singular achievement.
The book reminds those of us who have read less of Gregory than we should have how much we are missing.
Through Gregory\'s writings this is shown to illuminate both the sufferings of Christ and, poignantly, the human sufferings exemplified by his sister\'s breast cancer. --David Jasper, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Attentive, as many recent Theological writers are not, to the dangers of beauty and of the ideologizing of beauty in bourgeois discourse, [Carnes] takes us from the modern alternatives of functionality or distinterestedness to the complementarity of gratuity and fittingness.
Gregory of Nyssa emerges from these pages as a writer and theologian for our time, at once ancient and postmodern.
All good history and theology thrive on imaginative engagement--while beauty is most enticing when it is veiled and presented as a mystery.
Mangina, Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Natalie Carnes has written a remarkable book--in its range, its learning and its imaginative sweep. --Joseph L.
A remarkable achievement.
To know God\'s beauty is to be wounded--and transformed.
Drawing on her extensive knowledge of Gregory\'s writings, Natalie Carnes shows how the themes of fittingness and gratuity take us deep into the heart of his Trinitarian vision.
A compelling exploration of Gregory of Nyssa as theologian of the divine beauty.
Coetzee and art theorist Kaja Silverman, Beauty displays the importance of beauty to theology and theology to beauty in a discussion that bridges ancient and modern, practical and theoretical, secular and religious.
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Drawing Gregory into conversation with such disparate voices as novelist J.
If beauty fell out of favor because it was seen to distract from the weightier concerns of poverty and suffering--because it can even be a tool of oppression--why should we laud it now? Gregory\'s writings offer surprisingly rich and relevant reflections that can move contemporary conversations beyond current impasses and critiques of beauty.
with the recent resurgence of attention to beauty among theologians, questions still remain about what exactly beauty is, how it is perceived, and whether we should celebrate its return.
Beauty engages fourth-century bishop Gregory of Nyssa to address beauty\'s place in theology and the broader world
