Poetic Seeing in Visual Arts and Theology. Aesthetics as a Spiritual and Loving Gaze within the Human Quest for Meaning.

A human being is essentially homo aestheticus and not in the first place homo faber. In the light of this basic assumption, it is argued that, due to poetic seeing, interconnectedness between art[1], spirituality and the human quest for meaning exists. It is virtually impossible to define art. Howev...

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Main Author: Louw, D. J. 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: South African Publ. 2015
In: Koers
Year: 2015, Volume: 80, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
CE Christian art
NBC Doctrine of God
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B theology and God-images
B theopascitism
B poetic seeing
B Visual Arts
B Imagination
B homo aestheticus
B meaning in suffering
B Aesthetics
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