Beauty for ashes: Notes on the displacement of beauty

Literature and Theology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 427-449

  Jantzen, Grace M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61449424763     PISSN: 02691205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/litthe/16.4.427     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. P. Sherry, Spirit and Beauty, 2nd edn (London: SCM, 2002)
2. E. Farley, Faith and Beauty: A Theological Aesthetic (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001)
3. J.S. Begbie, Theology, Music and Time (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000)
4. J.W. de Gruchy, Christianity, Art and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001)
5. C. Crockett, A Theology of the Sublime (London and New York: Routledge, 2001)
6. R. Viladesau, Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty and Art (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1999)
7. C. Cazeaux (ed.), The Continental Aesthetics Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2000)
8. P.Z. Brand and C. Korsmeyer (eds), Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania UP, 1995)
9. C. Korsmeyer (ed.), Aesthetics: The Big Questions (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998)
10. E. Bronfen, Over her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1992)
11. G. Pollock, Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art's Histories (London and New York: Routledge, 1999)
12. E. Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999)
13. H. Bredin and L. Santoro-Brienza, Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Introducing Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2000)
14. See R. Lorraine, 'A History of Music' in Brand and Korsmeyer; and B. Nettl, ' "Musical Thinking" and "Thinking about Music" in Ethnomusicology' and W.M. Mwale, 'Against "Tradition": Form and Style in a Likhuba Master Dancer', both in Korsmeyer
15. Augustine, when pressed, says that 'the mind has no sex' (De Trinitate xii.7.12); but this does not prevent him from holding a view of women's inferiority on the basis of her bodily and reproductive capacities, unlike the 'male' rational abilities. See my Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995), pp. 71-4
16. Another recent book on beauty, which I do not otherwise review, actually uses the beauty of the universe as an occasion of rapprochement between science and theology, using it as evidence for the veracity of Christian doctrine: T. Dubay, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999)
17. See my Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1998); also 'What Price Neutrality? A Reply to Paul Helm' in Religious Studies (2000)
18. Cited in J. Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700) (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1974), p. 101
19. De imaginibus I.16, quoted by A. Louth in A. Hastings et al. (eds), The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000), p. 318