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In
Transcendence and Sensoriness, scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts through case studies considered in a broad theological framework of religious aesthetics of the arts.
About the author
Svein Aage Christoffersen, University of Oslo, is Professor of Systematic Theology. He has published monographs and many articles on Ethics, Aesthetics of Religion and History of Ideas, including
The Illumination of Time in Space (In Raw, 2014).
Geir Hellemo, University of Oslo, has been Professor of Church History and Liturgy. He has published monographs and articles on liturgy, iconography and aesthetics, including
Adventus Domini: eschatological thought in 4th-century apses and catecheses (Brill 1989)
Leonora Onarheim is a Doctoral Candidate in Systematic Theology at the University in Oslo. She has published several articles on the interception between contemporary art (Anselm Kiefer) and theology.
Nils Holger Petersen, University of Copenhagen, is Associate Professor of Church History. He has published widely on music and drama within the history of Christianity. He is editor for music for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception.
Margunn Sandal, Ordained Pastor in the Church of Norway and Lecturer at the University of Oslo. She wrote her doctorate on transcendence in sacred buildings (2014), and has published articles about Nordic church architecture, including
Nature in Sacred Buildings (In Raw, 2014).
Contributors are: Kristin B. Aavitsland, Dag T. Andersson, Arnfinn Bø-Rygg, Svein Aage Christoffersen, Espen Dahl, Trond Skard Dokka, Jens Fleischer, Hans Jørgen Frederiksen, Geir Hellemo, Dorthe Jørgensen, Theodor Jørgensen, Leonora Onarheim, Nils Holger Petersen, Ettore Rocca, Kristin Rygg, Margunn Sandal, and Mikkel B. Tin.
