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• W808664805 abstract "Despite religion's ongoing battle with the modem art world, common ground between diverse religious traditions can be negotiated in abstract pictorial art's capacity to resolve religious conflict, at least on the epistemic level. This exploration argues that abstract art, referring specifically to painting, serves the interests of interreligious dialogue insofar as the epistemic level of its provides effective place to broaden discussion on the question of religious unity. It also explores how focusing on abstract painting's nonrepresentational content or meaning made visible can expand that common ground and help resolve the of religious disunity. According to Joshua Reynolds, effective procedure to discover that great ideal of religious unity is by observing what all major religions have in common, which, Reynolds explained, results in an abstract idea of their forms more perfect than any one original. (1) The strength of abstract pictorial art to discover that same ideal lies in the capacity of its symbolic nature to convey religious more spontaneously and less prejudicially than formulaic religious doctrines. While theology and philosophy seek to understand the nature of God and spiritual realities through faith and reason, abstract pictorial art involves the sense of sight, raising the mind to convey ideas about God and spirituality through symbol and feeling without the distinctions and separations of philosophical language or religious doctrine. Referring to abstract art as an expression of ultimate concern, (2) Paul Tillich claimed: You cannot interpret a picture by stating its in discursive sentences and then dispensing with the visual form. Every work of art ... has something to say directly to its audience that cannot be expressed by scientific formulas or the language of everyday experience. (3) Tillich believed that through symbols religious language communicates religious experience, and abstract painting is highly symbolic. Richard Viladesau went further to claim that abstract paintings are instances of 'aesthetic theology': a reflection on and communication of theological insight in a way irreducible to abstract conceptual thought. (4) Perhaps this is why many philosophical theorists on theological matters do not define God as Creator or Sustainer or Lord of Lords but, rather, as omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent--or, more sophisticatedly, as Thomas Aquinas's Ipsum esse subsistens or the Not Said, Unspoken, and Unspeakable subjects of Hegel's Absolute. Abstract pictorial art, in its purest and most radical forms, is able to capture these realities more readily than theological formulations by providing a pictorial content to which almost every religious tradition can relate. A pictorial approach to interreligious dialogue underscores the possibility for abstract forms to express fundamental religious truths. Given that religious truth is built on abstract thought systems, rather than forcing concrete simulations on theoretical models of religious unity a more effective approach to meet the same goal is through religious embedded in abstract pictorial art. In pictorial abstraction, religion's primary truth-statements assume a nonfigurative perceptivity that is more universally comprehensible than what is portrayed in concrete pictorial imagery. Robert Neville has explained how the abstract is able to interpret local religious beliefs in a wider context, and he stated that abstractions characterize sophisticated thought and the mere local popular religion. (5) Unlike a specific religion or explicitly religious art, abstract painting is neither concerned with narrative nor connected to specific stories or categorical religious doctrine. Gregory Currie made this point in his essay, Visual Conceptual Art. He claimed that such art is useful for focusing away from the particularity of things, given that particularity is unlikely to help interreligious dialogue. …" @default.
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• W808664805 title "A Pictorial Response to Religious Disunity" @default.
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