Introduction
Part I - The Conceptual Mediation: The Cross in Theology
Chapter 1: The Classical Tradition Renewed: Satisfaction and
Vicarious Substitution
Chapter 2: Revisionist Theologies
Part II - The Aesthetic Mediation: The Cross in Piety and the
Arts
Chapter 3: The Cross in Spirituality and Piety
Chapter 4: The Cross in the Fixed Visual Arts.
Chapter 5: The Cross in Film
Chapter 6: The Cross in Music
Chapter 7: Conclusion. Retrospect and Prospect
Appendix 1: Locations of artworks
Appendix 2: Discography
Bibliography
Index
Richard Viladesau is Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Theology at Fordham University.
A priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., he obtained his
doctoral degree at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His
work concentrates on philosophical questions in theology, including
the relation of aesthetic modes of thinking to empirical and
conceptual thought.
"The book will be valuable for those in the visual arts as well as
theology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates;
graduate students; professionals." -- A. W. Klink, CHOICE
"Richard Viladesau is the rare person with the kind of experience,
learning, and creativity to embark on a cross-disciplinary effort
such as this. He offers a masterful synthesis of meticulous
research, wise sensibility, and wide-ranging aesthetic curiosity.
This book is a triumph." -- Peter C. Bouteneff, Professor of
Systematic Theology and Director of the Institute of Sacred Arts at
St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
"Richard Viladesau draws a new geography confirming the arts as
historical documents for the doing of theology as he spans the work
of 20th and 21st century Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox
theologians as well as feminist, liberation, and Black theology.
Particularly enlightening are his analyses of the cross in film
from DeMille to Gibson and in music from Pärt to Adams. Throughout
he expands how the recognition and place of salvation history
is
communicated in the secular century." -- Diane Apostolos-Cappadona,
Professor Emerita of Religious Art and Cultural History, Georgetown
University
"In this magisterial volume, Richard Viladesau explores what the
Cross means in late modernity and postmodernity. He does so through
a traversal of an extraordinarily wide range of sources,
theological and philosophical, and through the arts, including the
plastic arts, film and music, revealing a depth of thought unique
amongst theologians of our time. This is a daringly provocative and
innovative work, essential for anyone interested in theology and
the
arts." -- Very Rev. Dr Ivan Moody, CESEM - Universidade Nova,
Lisbon
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