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The Poetics of Evil$
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Philip Tallon

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199778935

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199778935.001.0001

Aesthetics and Theological Insight

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2 Aesthetics and Theological Insight
Source:
The Poetics of Evil
Author(s):

Philip Tallon

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199778935.003.0015

This chapter examines some additional barriers to the fruitful use of aesthetics in theodicy: those arising from unhelpful ways of understanding aesthetics. After arguing against some prevalent problems within aesthetic theory, it offers an account of Christian aesthetics that draws on the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Frank Burch Brown, which allows for aesthetics to offer insight into theological tasks such as theodicy.

Keywords:   Balthasar, von Balthasar, Burch Brown, Brown, aesthetics, theodicy, theological task, insight

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