Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wiseman, Mary Bittner

Titel

The Catholic Imagination

Ist Teil von

• Contemporary Aesthetics, 2018, Vol.16

Ort / Verlag

Castine: Contemporary Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (Silver Hollow Press, 2018), critic Eleanor Heartney has used the under-recognized carnal dimension of Catholicism to write a book about art and the body that performs the welcome task of undermining the split between mind and body that still haunts much philosophy and religion. The title of the first chapter, “Body and Soul: The Workings of the Incarnational Consciousness,” tells the book’s tale, which is that there is the set of doctrines that comprise the religion qua religion, on the one hand, and there is the imagination formed by exposure to the expressions of these doctrines in the art, music, cathedrals, rituals like the Passion of Christ and the May celebrations of Mary, in which little girls dress in white and wear white veils, on the other.