Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe - Calvin''s Reformation Poetics

This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

List of contents

1. Introduction: the medieval context of the Reformation; 2. Like and presence in Holbein, Luther and Cranach; 3. John Calvin: creation, drama and time; 4. Calvin, language and the rise of literary culture; 5. Portraits and dramatic culture in sixteenth century England; 6. The emerging aesthetics of early modern England: a new world with echoes of the past; 7. The new visual culture of reformed Holland and France; 8. Epilogue: the cultural afterlife of Protestant aesthetics.

About the author

William A. Dyrness is Senior Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, California. A scholar of the art and religion of Reformation Europe, he is the author of Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards (Cambridge, 2004) and most recently, Poetic Theology, God, and the Poetics of Everyday Life (2010).

Summary

This book examines how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: William A. Dyrness, William A. (Fuller Theological Seminary Dyrness, Dyrness William A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781108717823
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71782-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Europe, RELIGION / History, Christianity, History of Religion, History of Art, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Church history, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art