Through the Dark Field

The Incarnation through an Aesthetics of Vulnerability

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Theological discourse in the West has consistently valued the word over the image. Aesthetics, which discerns the criteria and value of the beautiful and what "pleases the senses," is the discipline that prioritizes sensual intelligence over the rational; this book advocates a reconsideration of the doctrine of the incarnation through an aesthetics of vulnerability, in which the ethical optics of attention to the vulnerable other becomes the standpoint in which to ponder the significance of "God became human." Relying on such diverse thinkers as Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Karl Rahner, and Masao Abe, Susie Paulik Babka explores visual art, images, and poetry as theological sources, designating what Blanchot called "a region where impossibility is no longer deprivation, but affirmation."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-01-23
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor338
FörlagLiturgical Press
ISBN9780814680735

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Susie Paulik Babka received the PhD from the University of Notre Dame and is an associate professor in theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego. She has published several articles exploring a range of subjects concerning theological aesthetics, which include the relationship between Christology and popular culture and suffering and art in feminist theology, as well as Buddhist-Christian conversations on kenosis and emptiness.

ContentsIntroduction: The Landscape of the New ixChapter One: Theology, Vulnerability, and Art as the Consciousness of Grief 1Chapter Two: Christology Positive and Im-positive 39Chapter Three: Sensibility to Vulnerability in the Form of Art 89Chapter Four: Visual Art as a Resource for Theology of the Incarnation 121Chapter Five: Beyond Language, Beyond Reason: Vulnerability, Art, and the Problem of Catastrophic Suffering 157Chapter Six: The Presence of the Absent God: Incarnation and Abstract Expressionism 227Select Bibliography 301Index 311

"Through the Dark Field is a grace-filled indictment of any easy answer to catastrophic suffering. Susie Paulik Babka's call for each one of us to open to an absurd sort of excess, an overflowing of not knowing, of disorienting vulnerability, the abyss between me and you, is poetic and haunting. In the end, Babka creates a theology of the incarnation that witnesses to the suffering other. Even in our failures, and there are many, we are called to witness to the incarnation by witnessing to all others' suffering, ultimately emptied for the other. This witness is made urgent by Babka's passion for the promise of the visual arts and her sophisticated command of continental theory."Michele Saracino, Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department, Manhattan College