{"product_id":"living-beauty-alejandro-garca-rivera-9780742552166","title":"Living Beauty: The Art of Liturgy","description":"The Christian mystery, celebrated in the Roman Catholic liturgy, is a sensible mystery, and calls out for artistic expression. \u003ci\u003eLiving Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e explores the Christian mystery and points to the need for a liturgical aesthetic as a means to encounter the divine mystery. A liturgical aesthetic gives an account of Christian worship in terms of a new set of categories that includes divine beauty, a theology of sensibility, and the new notion of a unitive revelatory experience. These categories help to reveal the aesthetic dimensions of the Church's watershed document on the liturgy, \u003ci\u003eSacrosanctum Concilium\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Church today stands in need of a new conversation on the aesthetic dimension of the liturgy and the role of the arts. Contrary to common opinion, the arts provide more than an environment or mere extrinsic ornamentation for the liturgy; they are intrinsic to the very nature of liturgy. They provide the means of being sanctified in the encounter with divine beauty that is the mystery of Christian worship. Artistic expression enables the worshiping community to receive the divine mystery in beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alejandro Garc?-Rivera, Thomas Scirghi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0742552160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780742552166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Alejandro Garc?-Rivera","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059610546431,"sku":"9780742552166","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e9a54e7-ed42-4c96-a198-c2c6f055d3cf.jpg?v=1685059270","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-beauty-alejandro-garca-rivera-9780742552166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}