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

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780567700575
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Teologia

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'.

Index

Adam of St Victor, St here

aesthetics/aesthetic here–here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here

Alacoque, St Margaret Mary here, here

apostolic succession here–here

Aquinas, St Thomas here, here, here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here

architecture here–here, here–here, here

modern church here–here

art/arts here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, see also Christianity; image/images; literature; music; poetry/poetic; symbol/symbolic/symbolism; theology/theological

abstract here, here

active element in theology here

ancilla theologiae here

Christian here–here, here

eternal in historical particularity here–here, here–here

genuine here

interpretation of here

non-verbal arts here, here–here

original experience here–here

real here, here, here

and religious experience here–here

and theology here–here, here, here–here

and theology and piety here–here

verbal arts here–here, here–here

works of art here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here

artists/a...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• FOREWORD
• Introduction: Karl Rahner, theology and the arts
• Faith, culture, theology and the senses
• On literature
• On visual art and architecture
• On music
• Postlude
• SOURCES
• INDEX
• Copyright