The Aesthetics of Discipleship
Adrian Coates
Discipleship is embodied. Formation in the Christian life is not an otherworldly exercise but one that plays out in this world, interwoven with everyday sensory experience in ordinary life. The Aesthetics of Discipleship explores this dynamic through Kierkegaard's framing of aesthetic existence--the sensory experience of being in the moment--further developed by Bonhoeffer, as operating within a realm of freedom, encompassing not only art but play, friendship, and cultural formation. In addition to Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer, the work of Iain McGilchrist, Graham Ward, and Nicholas Wolterstorff is employed to offer a fresh perspective on discipleship, from below: Everyday sensory experiences are integral not only to being human but to the practice of discipleship, such that discipleship integrates aesthetic, ethical, and religious existence. Aesthetic existence unhinged from a life of faith or fueled by distorted Christendom creates and sustains aestheticized pseudorealities centered on the self. Mature aesthetic existence, however, anchored in love for God, plays a fundamental role in the Christian life, both as the incarnational celebration of being fully human, and also through the preconscious formation of imaginaries by which we live.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Adrian CoatesPublisher: Pickwick PublicationsPublished: 09/30/2021ISBN: 9781725272378Pages: 256Weight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
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The Aesthetics of Discipleship
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9781725272378
Discipleship is embodied. Formation in the Christian life is not an otherworldly exercise but one that plays out in this world, interwoven with everyday sensory experience in ordinary life. The Aesthetics of Discipleship explores this dynamic through Kierkegaard's framing of aesthetic existence--the sensory experience of being in the moment--further developed by Bonhoeffer, as operating within a realm of freedom, encompassing not only art but play, friendship, and cultural formation. In addition to Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer, the work of Iain McGilchrist, Graham Ward, and Nicholas Wolterstorff is employed to offer a fresh perspective on discipleship, from below: Everyday sensory experiences are integral not only to being human but to the practice of discipleship, such that discipleship integrates aesthetic, ethical, and religious existence. Aesthetic existence unhinged from a life of faith or fueled by distorted Christendom creates and sustains aestheticized pseudorealities centered on the self. Mature aesthetic existence, however, anchored in love for God, plays a fundamental role in the Christian life, both as the incarnational celebration of being fully human, and also through the preconscious formation of imaginaries by which we live.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Adrian Coates
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 09/30/2021
ISBN: 9781725272378
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Adrian Coates
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 09/30/2021
ISBN: 9781725272378
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
Discipleship is embodied. Formation in the Christian life is not an otherworldly exercise but one that plays out in this world, interwoven with everyday sensory experience in ordinary life. The Aesthetics of Discipleship explores this dynamic through Kierkegaard's framing of aesthetic existence--the sensory experience of being in the moment--further developed by Bonhoeffer, as operating within a realm of freedom, encompassing not only art but play, friendship, and cultural formation. In addition to Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer, the work of Iain McGilchrist, Graham Ward, and Nicholas Wolterstorff is employed to offer a fresh perspective on discipleship, from below: Everyday sensory experiences are integral not only to being human but to the practice of discipleship, such that discipleship integrates aesthetic, ethical, and religious existence. Aesthetic existence unhinged from a life of faith or fueled by distorted Christendom creates and sustains aestheticized pseudorealities centered on the self. Mature aesthetic existence, however, anchored in love for God, plays a fundamental role in the Christian life, both as the incarnational celebration of being fully human, and also through the preconscious formation of imaginaries by which we live.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Adrian Coates
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 09/30/2021
ISBN: 9781725272378
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Adrian Coates
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 09/30/2021
ISBN: 9781725272378
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d