The Beauty of God's House: Essays in Honor of Stratford Caldecott

Description: For thirty years Stratford Caldecott has been an inspirational figure in liturgy fantasy literature graphic novels spirituality education ecology and social theory. Hundreds of people have learned from his spiritual approaches to the great existential questions. The Beauty of Gods House is a Festschrift dedicated to him. The book seeks to cover the whole range of Caldecotts interests from poetics to politics. Anyone interested in the field of theology and the arts will find much to intrigue them in this delightful multi-authored volume. The common core of Stratfords interests is in the beauty of the cosmos and how it reflects the beauty of God. This book is about the beauty of Gods realm and it conceives Gods realm as the arts politics liturgy religions and human life. It touches on the many places where beauty and spirituality overlap. It is an engagement in theological aesthetics that goes well beyond the aesthetic.