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Many contemporary theologians seek to retrieve the concept of beauty as a way for people to encounter God. This groundbreaking book argues that while Martin Luther's view of beauty has often been ignored or underappreciated, it has much to contribute to that quest. Mark Mattes, one of today's leading Lutheran theologians, analyzes Luther's theological aesthetics and discusses its implications for music, art, and the contemplative life. Mattes shows that for Luther, the cross is the lens through which the beauty of God is refracted into the world.

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Philosophie et théologie

Christian theology

History of religions

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	22 août 2017
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EAN13	9781493410309
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Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2017 by Mark C. Mattes
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ISBN 978-1-4934-1030-9
Unless indicated otherwise, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2011
Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations labeled KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Excerpts for Luther’s Works Volumes 1–30 © Concordia Publishing House. Used with permission. www. cph.org .
Dedication
Dedicated to the memory of my father, Donald Athalbert Mattes, and to the honor of my mother, Betty Joan Nyquist Mattes, who both nurtured me in the faith
Contents
Cover i
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Dedication v
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
1. Introduction 1
Foundation in Scripture
Overview of the Book
2. Luther’s Use of Philosophy 15
The Scope of Philosophy in the Late Medieval University
Nominalism and Realism
Luther’s Divergences from Nominalism
Aristotle’s Inadequacies and Adequacies
Early Appropriation of Plato
The Question of Double Truth
Priority of Grammar over Logic
The Semantics of the New Tongue
Conclusion
3. Luther on Goodness 43
Brief Overview of Medieval Views of Goodness
Justification and Goodness
Omnipotence and Divine Goodness
Goodness as the Heart of God
Comparison with Medieval Perspectives
Conclusion
4. The Early Luther on Beauty 69
Proportionality, Light, and Desire
Beauty as a Transcendental
Beauty in the Theology of Humility
Beauty and the Question of Form
Conclusion
5. The Mature Luther on Beauty 91
Beauty Sub Contrario in Selected Psalms (1530s)
Beauty in the Lectures on Galatians (1535)
Lectures on Genesis (1535 and Following)
Conclusion
6. Luther on the Theology and Beauty of Music 113
Music as a Creation and Gift of God
Luther’s Response to the Ancient Church’s Mixed Reception of Music
Luther’s Response to Reformed Reservations about Music
The Affectivity of Music as Embodied Word
Criteria for Beauty in Music
Poetic Summary of Luther’s View of Music
Conclusion
7. Luther on Visual Imaging 133
The Role of Images in the Early Church
Critique of Medieval Veneration of Icons
Critique of Iconoclasm
Word as Portrayal
A Covered God
Conclusion
8. Luther and Nouvelle Théologie 155
The Ambiguity of the Infinite
An Enchanted World
The Strange Beauty of the Cross
The Goals of the Nouvelle Théologie
The Question of Participation
The Question of Hierarchy
The Question of Pure Nature
Conclusion
9. Luther for a Contemporary Theology of Beauty 183
Summary of Results
Beauty of Christ, Revisited
Creaturely Beauty, Revisited
God as Beautiful, Revisited
Luther in Contrast to Modern Views of Beauty
The Sublime
Revisiting Form
Beauty and Preaching
Works Cited 205
Index of Names 217
Index of Ancient Sources 221
Index of Subjects 223
Back Cover 227
Acknowledgments
T here are many pleasures that come with writing, but the chief one is the fellowship established in the community of scholars that writing facilitates. Writing is solitary, but it is never isolated. Instead, this book, in spite of whatever flaws that may exist in it, has benefited mightily from extensive comments received from Paul Rorem, Robert Kolb, Oswald Bayer, and Steve Paulson. I am grateful for and indebted to the fellowship that exists in and is garnered by the journal Lutheran Quarterly , which the aforementioned friends find as a point of reference for their work in English-speaking circles. I am heartened by and indebted to the many suggestions that these scholars have brought.
This work has benefited as well from a less international but no less important support system: my colleagues and friends at Grand View University, which, professionally speaking, has been my home for over twenty years. Thanks are especially to be given to Ken Sundet Jones, who was often the first to read the pages in this book and who generously and in detail commented on them. Likewise thanks go out to John Lyden and Kathryn Pohlmann Duffy for their critique and support. Sheri Roberts and Cara Stone, Grand View librarians, assisted with providing numerous interlibrary loan resources. Most importantly, I am grateful to the board of trustees of Grand View for granting me a sabbatical in the fall of 2015 for the purpose of finishing this book. In particular, Dean Ross Wastvedt aided in the sabbatical application process. At Princeton Seminary, Mark Dixon was helpful in finding copies of Nicholas of Lyra’s biblical commentaries, with which I compared Luther’s Lectures on Genesis ; Miles Hopgood likewise was helpful in retrieving several important bibliographic references for me. Additionally, John Pless, Oliver Olson, Russ Lackey, Kevin McClain, Roger Burdette, and Mary Jane Haemig provided encouragement and moral support through the writing process. Thanks to my wife, Carol, and children, Joseph, Peter, and Emma, who were patient with me as I carved out time to finish this project. Finally, thanks are due to editors Dave Nelson and Tim West at Baker Academic for shepherding this manuscript through the editorial process and to publication.
A number of these chapters were originally presented orally in various settings, and I wish to acknowledge those institutions that invited me to share this work. Chapter 2 is a revision of “Luther’s Use of Philosophy,” which originally was given as a plenary address to the Twelfth International Luther Congress in Helsinki in August 2012. The substance of chapter 3, “Luther on Goodness,” was presented in October 2014 during “Weekend with the Word,” a conference sponsored by the Lutheran Church of the Master, Corona del Mar, California. I am grateful to Pastor Mark Anderson for hosting me at this event. Chapter 4, “The Early Luther on Beauty,” was presented in a working group at the North American Luther Research Forum held at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, in April 2014. Chapter 6, “Luther on the Theology and Beauty of Music,” was a keynote presentation for the Vi Messerli Lectures at Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois, in October 2015. Finally, a condensed version of chapters 4 and 5, dealing with both the early and the mature Luther on beauty, was presented at the 2016 Symposium on the Confessions, Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and at the North American Luther Forum held at Luther Seminary in April 2016. Thanks are due to David Scaer for his invitation to lecture in Ft. Wayne and to Mary Jane Haemig for the invitation to present in St. Paul.
Chapter 2, “Luther’s Use of Philosophy,” originally appeared in Lutherjahrbuch 80 (2013): 110–41, and is used here with permission. Fortress Press and Concordia Publishing House have kindly granted permission to cite at length from Luther’s Works , 55 volumes (Philadelphia: Fortress; St. Louis: Concordia, 1955–86).
Abbreviations ACW Ancient Christian Writers ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. 1885–87. 10 vols. Reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies BC The Book of Concord . Edited by Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000. Passages are cited by page and margin number. BSELK Die Bekenntnisschriften der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche . Edited by Irene Dingel et al. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. Passages are cited by page and margin number. CH Church History Colloq Colloquium CTQ Concordia Theological Quarterly CurTM Currents in Theology and Mission JMEMS Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies KD Kerygma und Dogma LBW Lutheran Book of Worship . Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1978. LCL Loeb Classical Library LQ Lutheran Quarterly LW Luther’s Works (American edition). Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann. 55 vols. Philadelphia: Fortress; St. Louis: Concordia, 1955–86. New series, vols. 56–82. St. Louis: Concordia, 2009–. MQ Musical Quarterly NPNF 1 A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church . 1st series. Edited by Philip Schaff. 14 vols. New York: Christian Literature, 1886–89. Reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994. NZSTh Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie PL Patrologia Latina. Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne. 217 vols. Paris, 1844–64. SRR Seminary Ridge Review ST Studia Theologica WA D. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe; Schriften . 73 vols. Weimar: H. Böhlau, 1883–2009. Passages are cited according to volume, page, and line. WA BR D. Martin Luthers Werke : Kritische Gesamtausgabe; Briefwechsel . 18 vols. Weimar: H. Böhlau, 1930–85. WA DB D. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe; Bibel . 12 vols. Weimar: H. Böhlau, 1906–61. WA TR D. Martin Luthers Werke : Kritische Gesamtausgabe; Tischreden . 6 vols. Weimar: H. Böhlau, 1912–21.
1 Introduction
I n modern Luther research there has been a steady stream of articles and books devoted to Luther’s appreciation for music and his defense of icons and the visual arts in the face of the iconoclastic protests of other Reformers. Likewise, there hav