This ebook explores the position of aesthetic event in our notion and realizing of the holy. Richard Viladesau's aim is to articulate a theology of revelation, tested in terms of 3 vital dimensions of the cultured realm: feeling and mind's eye; good looks (or taste); and the humanities. After in short contemplating ways that theology itself may be creative or appealing, Viladesau concentrates at the theological importance of aesthetic facts supplied by means of all the 3 significant spheres of aesthetic conception and reaction. in the course of the paintings, the underlying query is how each one of those spheres serves as a resource (however ambiguous) of revelation. even though he frames a lot of his argument when it comes to Catholic theology--from the Church Fathers to Karl Rahner, Hans urs von Balthasar, Bernard Lonergan, and David Tracy--Viladesau additionally makes huge use of rules from the Protestant theologian of the humanities Gerardus van der Leeuw, and attracts insights from such different thinkers as Hans Goerg Gadamer, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Iris Murdoch. His research is enlivened by way of the inventive examples he selects: the tune of Mozart as pondered by way of Karl Barth, Schoenbergs opera Moses und Aron, the sculptures of Chartres Cathedral, poems by way of Rilke and Michelangelo, and so on. What emerges from this learn is what Viladeseau phrases a transcendental theology of aesthetics. In Thomistic phrases, he reveals that attractiveness isn't just a perfection yet a transcendental. that's, any example of attractiveness, rightly perceived and rightly understood, could be obvious to indicate divinely beautiful issues besides. In different phrases, Viladesau argues, God is absolutely the and worthwhile for the potential for beauty.