TY - BOOK AU - Viladesau, Richard AU - Viladesau,Richard TI - The Folly of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts-Early Modernity SN - 9780190876005 U1 - K07 PY - 2018/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. The Early modern Context and Changing paradigms ..........1 The dream of Jean Paul .........1 The Social - Intellectual Situation of Western Christianity 1750-1900: Changing Paradigms ..........6 Christ in the Enlightenment and post - enlightenment paradigms ........10 Jesus the Divine Redeemer ........12 Jesus the Incarnation of the Spirit .......26 Jesus the Source of World - Denying Religion ...........34 2. The Theological Mediation : The Doctrine of the Cross in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth - Century theology ..........41 The Continuation of the Enlightenment critique ..........46 The Doctrine of the Cross and its Critique in Ninettenth - Century Theology ..........47 The Orthodox Sytem of Understanding the salvific import of the Passion ...........49 Dogmatic Theology ...........51 Chateaubriand and the Beauty of Redemption ........53 Enlightenment objections to the Satisfaction theory ..........59 The Baron d`holbach ........62 Responses from the orthodox .....67 Romantic and critical Views of the Passion in Nineeth-Century theology after and Apart from Strauss ..........82 3. The Aestetic Meditation : The passion in the Music of the Clasical and romantic Eras .........103 Catholic Passion Music : The Sepolcro in the Classical and early romantic Period ...........120 4. The Aesthetic Mediation : The Cross in the visual arts in early modernity .........143 The Crucifixion as symbol of Self-Sacrifice: William blake .....150 The Romantic Cross: Eugene Delacroix and the passion as Humanistic art Genre ......164 5. The Aesthetic Mediation : The passion in Spirituality, Piety, and devotion ..........201 The Passion in CHristian Imagination ..........208 The Contemplative mystics of the Cross ..........227 ER -