The Portal of Beauty: Towards a Theology of Aesthetics

by Bruno Forte

Book Overview

A famous Italian theologian's eloquent reflections on beauty and God.

"Beauty is an event: it happens when the Whole, the All, offers itself to us in the fragment, when the Infinite makes itself little." This is how Bruno Forte describes the long-held Christian tradition that traces beauty back to God and sees God as the source of all beauty. But, he questions, is this really possible? How can the limitless inhabit what is little?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802832806
• ISBN13: 9780802832801
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"