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Aesthetics of nature and the sacred

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorThoemmes Continuum Publishers, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-25T20:35:29Z
dc.date.available2016-03-25T20:35:29Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (page 21).
dc.description.abstractConfronting nature one experiences the archetypes of the world. A living landscape couples dynamism with antiquity and demands an order of aesthetic interpretation that one is unlikely to find in art and its artifacts. A visit to wildlands contributes to the human sense of place in space and time, of duration, antiquity, continuity, to the human mystery of being the sole aesthetician in a kaleidoscopic universe. One encounters "the types and symbols of Eternity" (Wordsworth). We reach the sense of the sublime. When beauty transforms into the sublime, the aesthetic is elevated into the numinous. Perhaps the supernatural is gone, but the natural can be supercharged with mystery. If anything at all on Earth is sacred, it must be this enthralling creativity that characterizes our home planet. Here an appropriate aesthetics becomes spiritually demanding.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRoslton, Holmes, III, Aesthetics of Nature and the Sacred, Taylor, Bron R., editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, volume 1, 18-21. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum Publishers, 2005.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/171450
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofScience & Religion: Anthologies and Journal Articles
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dc.subjectaesthetics of nature
dc.subjectsubjective and objective in aesthetics
dc.subjectsymbols of eternity
dc.subjectnature
dc.subjectsupernature
dc.subjectsacred in nature
dc.titleAesthetics of nature and the sacred
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