Contents: Introduction, Oleg Bychkov; Part I The Legacy of von Balthasar: Section A The Trilogy: Hans Urs von Balthasar: beauty as a gateway to love, Francesca Aran Murphy; Hans Urs von Balthasar's 'Theatre of the World': the aesthetics of a dramatics, Ben Quash; Section B. Retrieving the Past: Transcending the aesthetic: Gadamer on tragedy and the tragic, Daniel L. Tate; The beautiful after Thomas Aquinas: questioning present-day concepts, GA1/4nther PAltner; Divine delight: acceptatio and the economy of salvation in Duns Scotus, Mary Beth Ingham; Hopkins, Scotus and von Balthasar: philosophical theology in poetry, Bernadette Waterman Ward. Part II Von Balthasar: Some Criticisms: Balthasar, Hopkins and the 'English tradition', Fergus Kerr; Von Balthasar and Protestant aesthetics: a mutually corrective conversation, Lee Barrett; Is the time right for a theological aesthetics?, George Pattison. Part III Outside von Balthasar: the Spectrum of Theological Aesthetics: Section A General Perspectives: Beyond beauty and the aesthetic in the engagement of religion and art, Nicholas Wolterstorff; The beauty of the Cross, Richard Viladesau; Is good art good for religion?, Frank Burch Brown; On a new list of aesthetic categories, Alejandro Garcia-Rivera; Section B Specific Issues: 'Alien beauty': parabolic judgment and the witness of faith, James Fodor; The strange and the self: visual arts and theology in Aboriginal and other (post-) colonial spaces, Sigurd Bergmann; Aesthetics and the built environment, Timothy Gorringe; Index.
