Teologi gjennom sansene: sakramenter og kunst

Nils Holger Petersen

Teologi gjennom sansene: sakramenter og kunst

Section of Church History

Abstract

This essay argues that the notion of sacramentality is important for a contemporary theology of aesthetics. It offers a historical sketch of how the term "sacrament" was used from the New Testament over Augustine to the high Middle Ages when the seven sacraments were established for in the medieval Latin Church (and the later Catholic Church). An earlier broad notion of sacraments as holy signs was, however, preserved as part of an understanding of the notion of holiness, outside the main focus of theologians, not least in (much) later Protestant thought. Such notions were appropriated, not least in the nineteenth century in artistic contexts, such as Richard Wagner's Kunstreligion, whereas Rudolf Otto in the twentieth century attempted to bring them back to the attention of theologians.

Original language	Norwegian
Title of host publication	Skapelsesnåde : Festskrift til Svein Aage Christoffersen
Editors	Stine Holte, Roger Jensen, Marius Timmann Mjåland
Number of pages	20
Place of Publication	Oslo
Publisher	Novus forlag
Publication date	2017
Pages	353-372
ISBN (Print)	978-82-7099-880-7
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Humanities

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