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School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

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1996

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Beauty As Revelation And Doxology: A Theology Of Aesthetics, Adam Begnaud Osb Jan 1996

Beauty As Revelation And Doxology: A Theology Of Aesthetics, Adam Begnaud Osb

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

This project was initiated as a term paper for the course "Trinity, Faith and Revelation" at Saint John's University, School of Theology, Collegeville, Minnesota. The paper presents the author's theology of beauty as a search for and praise of God in Benedictine monasticism and liturgical music.


Romantic Perception: A Kierkegaardian Re-Formation Of The Appearances Via Existential Arrest Towards Conscious Imaginative Relation, Christoph Franz Dobrowolski Jan 1996

Romantic Perception: A Kierkegaardian Re-Formation Of The Appearances Via Existential Arrest Towards Conscious Imaginative Relation, Christoph Franz Dobrowolski

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

The focus of this paper is to attempt to analyze how, in Kierkegaard's paradigm of what constitutes "a self", the representations of the phenomena change in the eyes of the perceiver from a state of "no self" - lacking this consciousness and active engagement of spirit-, to the moment of existential arrest, to a state of being "a self" - new and ever-growing consciousness as a result of this arrest. The primary source for this endeavour is Kierkegaard's text, The Concept of Anxiety. Methodology for this endeavour will involve explication of the text itself with nuances from other post-enlightenment literature …