Re-envisaging Ruskin’s Types: Beautiful Order as Divine Revelation
The 19th-century art critic John Ruskin offers an intriguing approach to nature as ‘divine art’: he sees in natural beauty ‘types’ or artistic images of the Godhead. Ruskin’s epistemology requires some refinement, but he offers a potentially fruitful approach to the divine revealed in the natural wo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2012, Volume: 77, Issue: 2, Pages: 165-181 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Epistemology B natural revelation B John Ruskin B Theological Aesthetics |
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| Summary: | The 19th-century art critic John Ruskin offers an intriguing approach to nature as ‘divine art’: he sees in natural beauty ‘types’ or artistic images of the Godhead. Ruskin’s epistemology requires some refinement, but he offers a potentially fruitful approach to the divine revealed in the natural world. I reformulate Ruskin’s typology with reference to the epistemology of Michael Polanyi: through this approach, one may enter into Ruskin’s Christian ‘vision’ of nature with its unique symbolic ‘practice.’ From this standpoint, I develop Ruskin’s types relating to natural order. My claim, in line with Ruskin’s, is that within human experience of a beautiful world is a revelation of divine order. |
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| ISSN: | 1752-4989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0021140012445664 |
