The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
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The Beauty of the Infinite is a 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.
Introduction1IThe Question1IITerms Employed5IIIBeauty15IVFinal Remarks29Pt. 1Dionysus against the Crucified35The Violence of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of ViolenceIThe City and the Wastes35IIThe View of the Sublime43IIIThe Will to Power93IVThe Covenant of Light125Pt. 2The Beauty of the Infinite153A Dogmatica MinoraITrinity155IICreation249IIISalvation318IVEschaton395Pt. 3Rhetoric without Reserve413Persuasion, the Tyranny of Twilight, and the Language of Peace413IThe War of Persuasions413IIThe Violence of Hermeneutics417IIIThe Optics of the Market431IVThe Gift of Martyrs439Index445
