Lost in Wonder: Essays on Liturgy and the Arts

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Jun 28, 2013 - Art - 194 pages

This book explores the Liturgy as the manifestation by cultic signs of Christian revelation, the 'setting' of the Liturgy in terms of architectural space, iconography and music, and the poetic response which the revelation the Liturgy carries can produce. The conclusion offers a synthetic statement of the unity of religion, cosmology and art. Aidan Nichols makes the case for Christianity's capacity to inspire high culture - both in principle and through well-chosen historical examples which draw on the best in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism.

 

Contents

St Thomas and the Sacramental Liturgy
5
Romano Guardini and Joseph Ratzinger on the Theology
29
Eucharistic Theology and the Rite of Mass
37
Architecture in the Church
49
The Icon Revisited
97
Paul Claudel on Sacred Art
105
A Theological Perspective on Church Music
117
Dantes Commedia and the Role of Friars
135
Poetics in the Russian Diaspora
149
Religion Science Art
177
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Aidan Nichols has written a wealth of books on topics of the Church and the Arts, and of Liturgy, since his first book 'The Art of God Incarnate'.

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