The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth

by David Bentley Hart

Book Overview

The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world.

The book begins by tracing the shifting use and nature of metaphysics in the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lyotard, Derrida, Deleuze,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080282921X
• ISBN13: 9780802829214
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"