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Beauty and Holiness: The Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion
By (Author) James Alfred Martin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Biography: general
111.85
Paperback
234
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
312g
In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to "worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" addressed a tradition that has compre