Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life
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Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life  -     By: Frank Bruch Brown

Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life

Oxford University Press / 2003 / Paperback

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Title: Good Taste, Bad Taste, & Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life
By: Frank Bruch Brown
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336
Vendor: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2003
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 0195158725
ISBN-13: 9780195158724
Stock No: WW158724

Publisher's Description

Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style. Yet they usually lack any theology of art or taste adequate to deal with aesthetic disputes. In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment--a non-elitist but discriminating theological aesthetics that has "teeth but no fangs."
While grounded in history and theory, this book takes up such practical questions as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music that is worldly in origin into a house of worship? How can the exercise of taste in the making of art be a viable (and sometimes advanced) spiritual discipline? In exploring the complex relation between taste, religious imagination, and faith, Brown offers a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious, and indeed Christian.

Author Bio

Frank Burch Brown is Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts at Christian Theological Seminary. He is author of Religious Aesthetics (1989) and Transfiguration: Poetic Metaphor and the Languages of Religious Belief (1983). He is also a composer and a director of a graduate program in church music.

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"Burch Brown has opened a way for a Christian theology to rejoin the ongoing task of culture critique, setting forth a broad agenda for Christian aesthetics."--Anglican Theological Review

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