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Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste

By Brown, Frank Burch

Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste Philosophy

Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2000-09-28
Publication Date:
2000-09-28
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019513611X
ISBN13:
9780195136111
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Weight:
697 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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