Transcendence and Sensoriness ― Perceptions, Revelation, and the Arts

In Transcendence and Sensoriness, scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts through case studies considered in a broad theological framework of religious aesthetics of the arts.

Svein Aage Christoffersen, University of Oslo, is Professor of Systematic Theology. He has published monographs and many articles on Ethics, Aesthetics of Religion and History of Ideas, includingThe Illumination of Time in Space (In Raw, 2014).Geir Hellemo, University of Oslo, has been Professor of Church History and Liturgy. He has published monographs and articles on liturgy, iconography and aesthetics, includingAdventus Domini: eschatological thought in 4th-century apses and catecheses (Brill 1989)Leonora Onarheim is a Doctoral Candidate in Systematic Theology at the University in Oslo. She has published several articles on the interception between contemporary art (Anselm Kiefer) and theology.Nils Holger Petersen, University of Copenhagen, is Associate Professor of Church History. He has published widely on music and drama within the history of Christianity. He is editor for music for The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Margunn Sandal, Ordained Pastor in the Church of Norway and Lecturer at the University of Oslo. She wrote her doctorate on transcendence in sacred buildings (2014), and has published articles about Nordic church architecture, includingNature in Sacred Buildings (In Raw, 2014).Contributors are: Kristin B. Aavitsland, Dag T. Andersson, Arnfinn Bo-Rygg, Svein Aage Christoffersen, Espen Dahl, Trond Skard Dokka, Jens Fleischer, Hans Jorgen Frederiksen, Geir Hellemo, Dorthe Jorgensen, Theodor Jorgensen, Leonora Onarheim, Nils Holger Petersen, Ettore Rocca, Kristin Rygg, Margunn Sandal, and Mikkel B. Tin.