The Beauty of God
While in the theology of the ancient Church the idea that God is beautiful was the object of some kind of consensus, Protestant dogmatics usually would not contain a chapter about God's beauty. The paper examines why this is the case. It brings Christian thinking about God's beauty in dial...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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| In: |
Modern theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 331-344 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Protestantism
/ Islam
/ Name of God
/ Attributes of God
/ Beauty
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| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | While in the theology of the ancient Church the idea that God is beautiful was the object of some kind of consensus, Protestant dogmatics usually would not contain a chapter about God's beauty. The paper examines why this is the case. It brings Christian thinking about God's beauty in dialogue with current aesthetic observations about beauty, with the emphasis on God's beauty in Islam. Finally, it discusses Karl Barth's interest in God's beauty as this characteristic of God expresses how God is attractive for human beings. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12420 |