Covenant and Beauty: A Reformed Approach to Aesthetic Formation
While Reformed theology has not often been used as a resource for theological aesthetics, this article explores the relationship of covenant to beauty, arguing that covenant clarifies the relational context of our aesthetic formation: through God’s covenanting with us, we learn to perceive beauty an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 363-384 |
| Further subjects: | B
Beauty
B Covenant B Reformed Theology B Theological Aesthetics B Formation |
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| Summary: | While Reformed theology has not often been used as a resource for theological aesthetics, this article explores the relationship of covenant to beauty, arguing that covenant clarifies the relational context of our aesthetic formation: through God’s covenanting with us, we learn to perceive beauty and become beautiful saints. Important issues in current theological aesthetics are clarified and grounded through the concept of covenant. An aesthetic register for the covenant relationship also illuminates the gratuitous nature of God’s covenantal relationship with his people, a relationship in which God delights in us, his covenant partners, bringing us into his beautiful trinitarian life. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-bja10068 |
