RT Article
T1 Can Beauty Save Calvin? A Reply to Kornu
JF Christian bioethics
VO 20
IS 1
SP 59
OP 66
A1 Carlton, Clark 1964-
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1780300441
AB This article argues that Dr. Kornu has failed to demonstrate how Jonathan Edward’s theology of beauty can substantively contribute to a contemporary Christian theology of medicine. Edward’s appropriation of Neo-Platonic language is contrasted with the use of the same language by the Orthodox Church Fathers. It is argued that the absence of a mystical (or noetic) understanding of theology, sacramental church structure, and ascetical discipline within the Reformed Tradition renders any attempt to appropriate a Neo-Platonic understanding of beauty ineffectual.
DO 10.1093/cb/cbu002