Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste
Aesthetics in Religious Life
Oxford University Press · Print & ebook · February 15, 2003
Christians frequently come into conflict with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture, and worship style.
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- Who it’s for
- Frank Burch Brown examines how artistic taste, religious imagination, and faith shape aesthetic disputes.
- Genres
- Religion in the Arts, Religion & Philosophy
- Published
- Oxford University Press, February 15, 2003
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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."
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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.
Christian Aesthetic Judgment
Frank Burch Brown examines how artistic taste, religious imagination, and faith shape aesthetic disputes.
Come here for
- A theological approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment
- Questions about music in worship and popular culture
Expect
- A discussion of accommodating varied artistic tastes within religious communities
- Questions about imported music and taste as spiritual discipline
Where it sits
| Religion in the Arts | 97% |
|---|---|
| Religion & Philosophy | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Christian Theology
- Authors
- Frank Burch Brown
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- February 15, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Christian Theology