title: Theological Aesthetics after von Balthasar (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)
author: Stan Hawkins
description: Oleg V. Bychkov and James Fodor are both Associate Professors in the Department of Theology at St. Bonaventure University, USA.
zlib_text: THEOLOGICAL AESTHETICS AFTER  
  VON BALTHASAR
  
  Ashgate Studies in Theology, 
  Imagination and the Arts
  Series Editors:
  Trevor Hart, St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  Jeremy Begbie, Ridley Hall, UK
   Roger Lundin, Wheaton College, USA
  What have imagination and the arts to do with theology? For much of the modern 
  era, the answer has been, ‘not much’. It is precisely this deﬁcit that this series seeks 
  to redress. For, whatever role they have or have not been granted in the theological 
  disciplines, imagination and the arts are undeniably bound up with how we as human 
  beings think, learn and communicate, engage with and respond to our physical and 
  social environments and, in particular, our awareness and experience of that which 
  transcends our own creatureliness.  The arts are playing an increasingly signiﬁcant 
  role in the way people come to terms with the world; at the same time, artists of 
  many disciplines are showing a willingness to engage with religious or theo