Lost in Wonder: Essays on Liturgy and the ArtsThis 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
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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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