Divine Beauty

"Divine Beauty offers the first detailed explication of Hartshorne's aesthetic theory and its place within his theocentric philosophy." "As Daniel A. Dombrowski explains, Hartshorne advanced a neoclassical or process theism that contrasted with the "classical" theism defended by traditionalist Jews, Christians, and Muslim believers. His conception of God was dipolar, which could attribute to God certain qualities that traditionalists would exclude. For example, in Hartshorne's view, God can embrace excellent aspects of both activity and passivity, or of permanence and change; classical theists, on the other hand, exlude passivity and change from their conceptions." "Filling an important gap in our understanding of Hartshorne, Divine Beauty also makes a persuasive case for the superiority of his neoclassical theism over classical theism."--Jacket.

First sentence: WHEREAS THE INTRODUCTION LAID OUT in a preliminary way the concept of God that will be assumed throughout the book, the present chapter will sketch the historic and thematic background to Harts-home's aesthetics, concentrating on the background provided by Whitehead's aesthetics as detailed by Sherburne, as an understanding of Hartshorne's view is best facilitated via a consideration of where he a

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Vanderbilt University Press

Editions

1

Pages

264

ISBN

9780826514400

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