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- Title
Mortal Beauty: Ignatius Loyola, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Role of Imagination in Religious Experience.
- Authors
Barth, J. Robert
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of imagination in religious experience. The Jesuit tradition has always prized logic and rigorous analytical thought. It is sometimes forgotten, however, that Jesuit education has also prized beauty and the movements of the heart. So, from the very beginning of the Society of Jesus, there have been Jesuit artists of every kind. Architects especially had a privileged role in the early Society, because of their contributions to Jesuit churches and schools, and the influence of Jesuit architects on the development of baroque religious architecture has often been noted. Painting was also an important part of the adornment of Jesuit churches, while serious music was central to the worship conducted there.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS literature; IMAGINATION; JESUITS; RELIGIOUS experience; JESUIT drama; CHRISTIANITY &; literature
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2000, Vol 50, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833310005000109