The Beauty of God’s House: Essays in Honor of Stratford Caldecott
For thirty years, Stratford Caldecott has been an inspirational figure in liturgy, fantasy literature, graphic novels, spirituality, education, ecology and social theory. Hundreds of people have learned from his spiritual approaches to the great existential questions. The Beauty of God's House is a Festschrift dedicated to him. The book seeks to cover the whole range of Caldecott's interests, from poetics to politics. Anyone interested in the field of theology and the arts will find much to intrigue them in this delightful multi-authored volume. The common core of Stratford's interests is in the beauty of the cosmos and how it reflects the beauty of God. This book is about the beauty of God's "realm," and it conceives God's realm as the arts, politics, liturgy, religions, and human life. It touches on the many places where beauty and spirituality overlap. It is an engagement in theological aesthetics that goes well beyond the "aesthetic."
"This is a splendid book in honor of Stratford Caldecott. . . .
Francesca Aran Murphy, rightly comments that though we would not
expect to find thematic unity in such a large collection of essays,
this one has a theme, the beauty of Christian faith. With his wife,
Leonie, Strat has embodied the bond between imagination and
Christianity. The grateful reader will find here the reflections of
a range of preeminent thinkers, Nicholas J. Healy Jr., Archbishop
Francisco Javier Martinez, John Milbank, Aidan Nichols, Cardinal
Marc Ouellet, D.C. Schindler, David L. Schindler, and Adrian Walker
among them."
--Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
"Celebrating Stratford Caldecott's indefatigable witness to the
beauty of Christ and the riches of the Christian imagination,
The Beauty of God's House is full of splendor, bound to be
treasured as a primer on theological aesthetics. A gift to those
who thirst to see cosmos and not chaos, the volume will delight
fans of Stratford's reflections on knowledge and wisdom, Sophia and
Mary, Aquinas, von Balthasar, Newman and Tolkien, Christian
politics, art, Atheism and Islam."
--Gregory Glazov, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
"This is a truly wonderful, wise, and beautiful collection of
essays, one which offers the reader a cogent whole, for all the
parts, as it were, converge on the need to present a richer account
of the world. . . . And behind the rich offerings on display here
stands the inspiration that Stratford Caldcott is to us all. His
wisdom, his generosity, his love of beauty and truth, of creation
is reflected throughout. I could not recommend the volume highly
enough."
--Conor Cunningham, University of Nottingham, Nottingham,
England
"Though formally centered around the theme of a theological
aesthetic, the range of these essays is enormous. From cosmology
and ecology to Mariology and ecclesiology, from politics and
philosophy to art and interfaith dialogue, these essays will have
the widest possible readership in classrooms, and will appeal as
well to the general reader who is looking for a thread of grace,
faith, and love to unite all of these disciplines in just the way
that Stratford Caldecott, to whom the volume is dedicated, had
taught us to see them. The star-studded cast of authors adds a
special appeal to this tribute."
--John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame,
IN
"This is a splendid book in honor of Stratford Caldecott. . . .
Francesca Aran Murphy, rightly comments that though we would not
expect to find thematic unity in such a large collection of essays,
this one has a theme, the beauty of Christian faith. With his wife,
Leonie, Strat has embodied the bond between imagination and
Christianity. The grateful reader will find here the reflections of
a range of preeminent thinkers, Nicholas J. Healy Jr., Archbishop
Francisco Javier Martinez, John Milbank, Aidan Nichols, Cardinal
Marc Ouellet, D.C. Schindler, David L. Schindler, and Adrian Walker
among them."
--Glenn W. Olsen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
"Celebrating Stratford Caldecott's indefatigable witness to the
beauty of Christ and the riches of the Christian imagination,
The Beauty of God's House is full of splendor, bound to be
treasured as a primer on theological aesthetics. A gift to those
who thirst to see cosmos and not chaos, the volume will delight
fans of Stratford's reflections on knowledge and wisdom, Sophia and
Mary, Aquinas, von Balthasar, Newman and Tolkien, Christian
politics, art, Atheism and Islam."
--Gregory Glazov, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
"This is a truly wonderful, wise, and beautiful collection of
essays, one which offers the reader a cogent whole, for all the
parts, as it were, converge on the need to present a richer account
of the world. . . . And behind the rich offerings on display here
stands the inspiration that Stratford Caldcott is to us all. His
wisdom, his generosity, his love of beauty and truth, of creation
is reflected throughout. I could not recommend the volume highly
enough."
--Conor Cunningham, University of Nottingham, Nottingham,
England
"Though formally centered around the theme of a theological
aesthetic, the range of these essays is enormous. From cosmology
and ecology to Mariology and ecclesiology, from politics and
philosophy to art and interfaith dialogue, these essays will have
the widest possible readership in classrooms, and will appeal as
well to the general reader who is looking for a thread of grace,
faith, and love to unite all of these disciplines in just the way
that Stratford Caldecott, to whom the volume is dedicated, had
taught us to see them. The star-studded cast of authors adds a
special appeal to this tribute."
--John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame,
IN
Product Details
- Title : The Beauty of God’s House: Essays in Honor of Stratford Caldecott
- Author: Murphy, Francesca Aran
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781630871949
Francesca Aran Murphy is professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame du Lac. She is the author of God Is Not a Story (2009).