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God / Terror Volker Kuster

God / Terror By Volker Kuster

God / Terror by Volker Kuster


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God/Terror addresses the quest for God in the context of oppression, violence and terror from an aesthetic perspective. It looks at how artists and writers approach the relationship between God and Terror.

God / Terror Summary

God / Terror: Ethics and Aesthetics in Contexts of Conflict and Reconciliation by Volker Kuster

In late modernity theology has to perform an aesthetic turn, if it wants to break out of its current isolation. Theologians cannot limit themselves to biblical texts and Christian tradition as a frame of reference but also have to search for traces of God's presence in cultures and religions. God/Terror addresses the quest for God in the context of oppression, violence and terror from an aesthetic perspective. It looks at how artists and writers approach the relationship between God and Terror. Statements such as that from composer Karl Heinz Stockhausen: 9/11 was the greatest work of art ever or from South African writer Adam Small: Only literature can perform the miracle of reconciliation - are occasions to reflect again about the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, theology and the arts. As in a medieval diptych, the theme is mirroring god talk in memory of 9/11 and in the context of political conflicts in Germany, South Korea and South Africa. First published in German as Gott - Terror: ein Diptychon by Kohlhammer.

About Volker Kuster

Volker Kuster is Professor of Comparative Religion and Missiology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany.

Table of Contents

Prologue I. Terror, War and Violence: God Talk in Memory of September 11th, 2001 1. The Power of Images 2. Apocalypse Now - Does 9/11 Mark an Epochal Boundary? 3. Conflicting Images of God II. Guilt, Reconciliation and Grace: God Talk in the Context of Political Conflicts in Germany, South Korea and South Africa 4. The Powerlessness of Images 5. Beyond Apocalypse - Dealing with Guilt in Societal Transformation Processes 6. In Conflict with God Epilogue

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NGR9781800500938
9781800500938
1800500939
God / Terror: Ethics and Aesthetics in Contexts of Conflict and Reconciliation by Volker Kuster
New
Paperback
Equinox Publishing Ltd
2021-09-01
112
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