Bøger af Frank Burch Brown

Proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literature's complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life. Brown shows that while poetic and conceptual modes of discovery are different, they are nevertheless mutually interdependent.

Many modes of religious expression and experience have a markedly aesthetic component, even though aesthetic delight itself often appears to be free of moral or religious interests. This work shows how aesthetics, no less than ethics, can play a central role in the study of religion and in the practice of theology.

This study provides one indication that as aesthetics begins to be reconcieved, which is starting to happen on many fronts, it can play a more significant role both in philosophy and in religious reflection.