Redeeming beauty: sounding in sacral aesthetics/ Nichols, Aidan

PART 1 Foundations, in Creation and Grace
1 Aesthetics in Augustine and Aquinas
Introduction
, Conclusion
2 • The Origin and Crisis of Christian Art
Introduction
Iconography and the Bible
Christian iconography in the early patristic age
The crisis of early Christian art
Ecumenical resolution: Nicaea II and the reception
of its dogmatic definition
Conclusion
PART 2 Twentieth-Century Theologians of the Image
3 Hans Urs von Balthasar on Art as Redemptive Beauty
Introduction
A theology of beauty
A theology of the image of God in man
A theology of the saving Incarnation as centre
of the revelation images must serve
A philosophy of the image at large
A Neo-Iconophile theology of the artist
The content of Christian art
4 Sergei Bulgakov on the Art of the Icon
Introduction
Attitude to Nicaea II and the Iconophile doctors
A theology of beauty
A theology of the image of God in man
A theology of the saving Incarnation
A philosophy of the image at large
A Neo-Iconophile theology of the icon
The content of iconography
Coda: icon and blessing
Benedict XVI on Holy Images
Introduction
The Christological perspective
The liturgiological perspective
Conclusion
PART 3 The Difficulties of Practice
6 The French Dominicans and the Journal L 'Art sacre
The project
The protagonists
The context
The establishment of L 'Art sacre
Policy or policies of the Dominicans of 'L'Art sacre'
A caveat
'La querelle de Part sacre'
Conclusion
7 The English Uses of Maritain's Aesthetics:
Eric Gill and David Jones
The virtue of art
Maritainian craftsman extraordinary: Eric Gill
The nature of beauty
David Jones: Maritainian artist of the sign
8 Conclusion: Christ and the Muses