Adrian Coates

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The Aesthetics of Discipleship

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Adrian Coates, a graduate of Regent College and the University of Cape Town, is a theology lecturer and Deputy Director of the UCT Student YMCA Christian Study Centre. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Historical and Constructive Theology at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pickwick Publications
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9781725272392
• ISBN-10: 1725272393
• Artikelnr.: 62749427