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THEOLOGY, AESTHETICS, AND CULTURE This page intentionally left blank Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture Responses to the Work of David Brown Editedby ROBERT MACSWAIN and TAYLOR WORLEY 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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Acknowledgements InSeptember2010theInstituteforTheology,Imagination,andtheArtsatthe University of St Andrews hosted a three-day conference titled, ‘Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Conversations with the Work of David Brown.’ In additiontotwelveplenarypapersfocusedonBrown’swork,overthirtyshort papers were delivered on a wide range of topics broadly related to theology, art, and human culture. The two editors of this volume and primary organi- zersofthisconferencearethusgratefultotheInstitute’sDirector,TrevorHart, for agreeing to sponsor the event, and to Gavin Hopps, Dona McCullagh, Elijah Wade Smith, and Jim Watkins for their essential contributions to its success. Special thanks also go to Ian Bradley, Ann Loades, Francesca Aran Murphy, Alan Torrance, the staff of St Mary’s College, the University’s Conference and Events Team, and the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of St Andrews, Louise Richardson. The editors also thank their respective in- stitutions—the University of the South and Union University—for travel grants that enabled them to attend the conference, and the University of the Southforaresearchgranttopayforthecostofindexingthisvolume. By design, in an attempt to cover at least the main themes and topics of Brown’s five books under discussion, the twelve plenary papers delivered at theconferencehavebeenaugmentedbysevenadditionalchapters(2,6,9,10, 13, 16, and 19). We are thus extremely grateful to all our contributors: those who spoke at the conference, those who attended as session chairs and then wrote chapters, and those who came on board after the event itself. Tom PerridgeandhisstaffatOxfordUniversityPresshavebeenbothencouraging andpatientasthebookhasdeveloped,andforthatwethankthem.Andweare delighted and honoured that contemporary artist Makoto Fujimura gave us permission to use one of his paintings as the cover image. But we are, of course,mostdeeplyindebtedtoDavidBrown:notonlyforproducingsuchan interestingandchallengingbodyofwork,butalsoforgraciouslyallowingitto besubjectedtothisthoroughandsearchingexamination,andthenproviding such a robustly stimulating response to his interlocutors. We hope that the conversationbegunattheconferenceandextendedinthesepageswillcontin- uetostimulateandchallengeforsometimetocome. RobertMacSwain TaylorWorley November2011 This page intentionally left blank Contents Contributors xi ListofPlatesandPermissions xiii Introduction Theology,Aesthetics,andCulture 1 RobertMacSwain TRADITION AND IMAGINATION: REVELATION AND CHANGE 1. Scripture,Tradition,andRevelation:AnAppreciativeCritique ofDavidBrown 13 WilliamJ.Abraham 2. Revelation,Christ,andFundamentalTheology:DavidBrown andKarlRahnerinDialogue 29 RichardViladesau 3. TheResurrectionofBody:Re-imaginingHumanPersonhoodin ChristianTradition 42 MargaretR.Miles DISCIPLESHIP AND IMAGINATION: CHRISTIAN TRADITION AND TRUTH 4. SaintsBeforeandAfterDeath 55 RichardBauckham 5. FromEthicstoEschatology:TheContinuingValidityofthe NewEveforChristianDoctrineandDiscipleship 64 TinaBeattie 6. RevelationImagined:Fiction,Truth,andTransformation 79 DouglasHedley GOD AND ENCHANTMENT OF PLACE: RECLAIMING HUMAN EXPERIENCE 7. EnchantmentandTranscendence:DavidBrownonArtand Architecture 91 GordonGraham viii Contents 8. TranscendingPlaceandTime:AResponsetoDavidBrownon Enchantment,Epistemology,andExperience 103 CharlesTaliaferro 9. Re-enchantingtheWorld:ThePossibilityofMaterially-Mediated ReligiousExperience 115 MarkWynn GOD AND GRACE OF BODY: SACRAMENT IN ORDINARY 10. ‘IamtheDance’:TowardsanEarthedChristianity 131 KimererL.LaMothe 11. OpennessandSpecificity:AConversationwithDavidBrownon TheologyandClassicalMusic 145 JeremyS.Begbie 12. InfiniteHospitalityandtheRedemptionofKitsch 157 GavinHopps 13. WereWeEverSecular?InterrogatingDavidBrownonGospel, Blues,andPopMusic 169 JudithS.Casselberry 14. WhatifDavidBrownHadOwnedaTelevision? 184 CliveMarsh 15. AfterAscension:TheBodyofChrist,Kenosis,and DivineImpassibility 197 GrahamWard GOD AND MYSTERY IN WORDS: EXPERIENCE THROUGH METAPHOR AND DRAMA 16. ‘Asensibilityfortheinfinite’:Metaphor,Symbol,Form,and theSublime 213 DavidFuller 17. LectioDivina? 226 TrevorHart 18. TheDensityofDivineAddress:Liturgy,Drama,andHuman Transformation 241 BenQuash 19. TheLiturgicalBodyandtheGiftofPresence 252 AnnLoadesandBridgetNichols Contents ix Response Experience,Symbol,andRevelation:ContinuingtheConversation 265 DavidBrown Postscript OnTheology’s‘EkphrasticMode’ 297 TaylorWorley Appendix:SelectedReviews 305 Index 307
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