Saving Beauty: A Theological Aesthetics of Nature

Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation and this project develops a theological aesthetics of nature and beauty with an aim toward cultivating a theological and ethical framework for redeemed life as participation in ecological community.With interdisciplinary verve engaging systematic philosophical and art theory systems of aesthetics the volume fosters the cultivation of the sense of beauty through creative religious and sacramental experience. All three types in fact are critically necessary as the author argues in eliciting hope for ecological redemption. This volume makes a vital contribution to the systematic and philosophical framework for ecological theology aesthetics and theological ethics.