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THEOLOGICAL AESTHETICS AFTER VON BALTHASAR Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts Series Editors: Trevor Hart, St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, Scotland Jeremy Begbie, Ridley Hall, UK Roger Lundin, Wheaton College, USA What have imagination and the arts to do with theology? For much of the modern era, the answer has been, ‘not much’. It is precisely this deficit that this series seeks to redress. For, whatever role they have or have not been granted in the theological disciplines, imagination and the arts are undeniably bound up with how we as human beings think, learn and communicate, engage with and respond to our physical and social environments and, in particular, our awareness and experience of that which transcends our own creatureliness. The arts are playing an increasingly significant role in the way people come to terms with the world; at the same time, artists of many disciplines are showing a willingness to engage with religious or theological themes. A spate of publications and courses in many educational institutions has already established this field as one of fast growing concern. This series taps into a burgeoning intellectual concern on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. The peculiar inter-disciplinarity of theology, and the growing interest in imagination and the arts in many different fields of human concern, afford the opportunity for a series which has its roots sunk in varied and diverse intellectual soils, while focused around a coherent theological question: How are imagination and the arts involved in the shaping and reshaping of our humanity as part of the creative and redemptive purposes of God, and what roles do they perform in the theological enterprise? Many projects within the series have particular links to the work of the Institute for Theology Imagination and the Arts in the University of St Andrews, and to the Theology Through the Arts programme in Cambridge. Other titles in the series Baptized Imagination The Theology of George MacDonald Kerry Dearborn Redeeming Beauty Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics Aidan Nichols, O.P. Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar Edited by OLEG V. BYCHKOV St. Bonaventure University, USA JAMES FODOR St. Bonaventure University, USA © Oleg V. Bychkov and James Fodor 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Oleg V. Bychkov and James Fodor have asserted their moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Gower House Suite 420 Croft Road 101 Cherry Street Aldershot Burlington, VT 05401-4405 Hampshire GU11 3HR USA England Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Theological Aesthetics after Von Balthasar. – (Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts) 1. Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905–1988. 2. Aesthetics – Religious aspects. 3. Theology, Doctrinal. I. Bychkov, O. V. II. Fodor, James. 230.2’092 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Theological Aesthetics after Von Balthasar / edited by Oleg V. Bychkov and James Fodor. p. cm. – (Ashgate studies in theology, imagination, and the arts) (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905–1988. I. Bychkov, O. V. II. Fodor, James. BX4705.B163T44 2008 230’.2092–dc22 2007045052 ISBN 978-0-7546-5834-4 This book has been printed on acid-free paper Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall. Contents List of Illustrations vii Abbreviations ix Introduction by Oleg Bychkov xi List of Contributors xxix Acknowledgements xxxiii PART I: The Legacy of von Balthasar Section A: The Trilogy 3 1 Hans Urs von Balthasar: Beauty as a Gateway to Love 5 Francesca Aran Murphy 2 Hans Urs von Balthasar’s ‘Theatre of the World’: The Aesthetic of a Dramatics 19 Ben Quash Section B: Retrieving the Past 3 Transcending the Aesthetic: Gadamer on Tragedy and the Tragic 35 Daniel L. Tate 4 The Beautiful after Thomas Aquinas: Questioning Present-day Concepts 51 Günther Pöltner 5 Divine Delight: Acceptatio and the Economy of Salvation in Duns Scotus 59 Mary Beth Ingham, CSJ 6 Hopkins, Scotus and von Balthasar: Philosophical Theology in Poetry 67 Bernadette Waterman Ward PART II: Von Balthasar: Some Criticisms 7 Balthasar, Hopkins and the ‘English Tradition’ 81 Fergus Kerr vi Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar 8 Von Balthasar and Protestant Aesthetics: A Mutually Corrective Conversation 97 Lee Barrett 9 Is the Time Right for a Theological Aesthetics? 107 George Pattison PART III: Outside von Balthasar: The Spectrum of Theological Aesthetics Section A: General Perspectives 10 Beyond Beauty and the Aesthetic in the Engagement of Religion and Art 119 Nicholas Wolterstorff 11 The Beauty of the Cross 135 Richard Viladesau 12 Is Good Art Good for Religion? 153 Frank Burch Brown 13 On A New List of Aesthetic Categories 169 Alejandro García-Rivera Section B: Specific Issues 14 ‘Alien Beauty’: Parabolic Judgment and the Witness of Faith 187 James Fodor 15 The Strange and the Self: Visual Arts and Theology in Aboriginal and Other (Post-) Colonial Spaces 201 Sigurd Bergmann 16 Aesthetics and the Built Environment 225 Timothy Gorringe Index 235 List of Illustrations Figure 1 Anonymous Umbrian painter, San Damiano Cross (12th c.), Assisi, S. Chiara 146 Figure 2 Matthias Grünewald, The Small Crucifixion (c. 1511/1520), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 148 Figure 3 Paul Gauguin, Yellow Christ (1889), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York 149 Figure 4 Pablo Picasso, The Crucifixion (Sept. 19, 1932), Musée Picasso, Paris, France. © Succession Picasso/ DACS, © ARS, NY. Photo courtesy of Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. 150 Figure 5 Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Robert Colombo. 174 Figure 6 Jesus Nazareno de Jocotenango. Photo courtesy of John Endres, SJ. 175 Figure 7 Replica of the “Black Christ” of Esquípuli, Guatemala. San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas. Photo courtesy of Alex García-Rivera. 176 Figure 8 St. Martin de Porres. Prayer Card. 179 Figure 9 Karneval beim Sanatorium “Weißer Hirsch,” February 1910 (repr. in: I. Lloyd, German Expressionism New Haven, London, 1991, p. 115). 205 Figure 10 A. van der Lam, Lapponian landscape, etching (?), Frontespiez in: Carl von Linné, Flora lapponica (Amsterdam, 1737), repr. in: Richard Tham, Lappland och Tornedalen i konsten: Landskapsvyer 1799–1910 (Luleå, 1989), p. 21. 207 Figure 11 Etching, in: Sophus Tromholt, Under Nordlysets straaler (1885), repr. in: Odd Mathis Hætta, Samene: historie, kultur, samfunn (Oslo, 1994), p. 34. 208 viii Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar Figure 12 Geir Tore Holm, Are you still my friend? Performance, 1999, repr. in: Ofelas, Iver Jåks, Veiviseren (Ofelas, Iver Jåks, Guide) (Tromsø: Universitetsbiblioteket, 2002), p. 133. © DACS, London 2007. 212 Figure 13 Iver Jåks, hva for noe, 1994, wood, coloured glass, rope of reindeer skin. © DACS, London 2007. 218 Figure 14 Britta Marakatt Labba, Niehkodoaivagat/Önskedröm [Desire dream], textile patchwork, 35 x 35 cm, repr. in: Britta Marakatt Labba (catalogue) (Luleå, 2000). © DACS, London 2007. 220 Figure 15 Odd Sivertsen, Blå livsstrand [Blue beach of life], 1995, oil on canvas, reproduction in: Odd Sivertsen, En himmel i Nord (Tromsø: Galleri Embla, 1999), p. 13 221 Abbreviations References to works by Balthasar are given, where possible, in parentheses in the text of the book. Otherwise they are to be found in footnotes. GL1 The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics. Volume 1: Seeing the Form, translated by Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis, edited by Joseph Fessio and John Riches (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1983) GL2 The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics. Volume 2: Studies in Theological Style: Clerical Styles, translated by Andrew Louth, Francis McDonagh, and Brian McNeil; edited by John Riches (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1984) GL3 The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics. Volume 3: Studies in Theological Style: Lay Styles, translated by Andrew Louth, John Saward, Martin Simon and Rowan Williams; edited by John Riches (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1986) GL4 The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics. Volume 4: The Realm of Metaphysics in Antiquity, translated by John Kenneth Riches (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1989) GL5 The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics. Volume 5: The Realm of Metaphysics in the Modern Age, translated by O. Davies et al. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1991) GL7 The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics. Volume 7: Theology: The New Covenant, translated by Brian McNeil (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989) AvP First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr, translated by Antje Lawry and Sr. Sergia Englund (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1981) ExT1 Explorations in Theology I: The Word Made Flesh, translated by A.V. Littledale with Alexander Dru (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1989) ExT2 Explorations in Theology II: Spouse of the Word, translated by A.V. Littledale with Alexander Dru (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1991)

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This collection of essays by distinguished authors explores the present-day field of theological aesthetics: from von Balthasar's contribution and parallel developments to correctives and alternatives to his approach. A tribute to von Balthasar's own project expands into a dialogue with ancient and
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