Alejandro Garcia Rivera: 2 books
The Community of the Beautiful
A Theological Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
The claim has been made that we are gripped today in an aesthetic crisis" with considerable theological ramifications. Aesthetics, which has existed since the first human heart was moved by the influence of the beautiful, has played a major...
A Wounded Innocence
Sketches for a Theology of Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
What is the theological significance of art? Why has the Church always encouraged the arts? What is so profoundly human about the arts? In A Wounded Innocence Alejandro R. Garcia-Rivera answers these questions in a series of sketches" that are mixed spiritual and theological reflections on various...