Aesthetics and the Divine

CONTENTS

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Preface and Acknowledgments........v

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Part 1: The Religious Artwork

Chapter 1

The Concept of Religious Art.........3

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Part 2: Engaging artists

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Chapter 2 - Painting
The Divine Language in the Landscape
Victor Majzner’s “Images of Tanya”.............33

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Chapter 3 – Literature

Honouring a Father: Redemption in Ambivalence
Richard Freadman’s Shadow of Doubt – My Father and Myself......61

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Chapter 4 - Music
Cleaving to G-d through Dissonance
Felix Werder’s “From the Straits...”...............89

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Part 3: Fostering religious art

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Chapter 5 – Educating to Religious Art.............121