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John Manoussakis’s latest book, The Ethics of View Article ### [The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part II (Oleg Komkov)](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-ii-oleg-komkov/) Oleg Komkov The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. II. “Absolute Symbolism” of Christian Worldview: The Aesthetic View Article ### [The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part I (Oleg Komkov)](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-i-oleg-komkov/) Oleg Komkov The following is the first part in a two-part installment. This article is an attempt to highlight and reflect on several interrelated issues that seem to be View Article ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/) Raji Singh Soni The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. As Julia Reinhard Lupton argues It View Article ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-2-raji-singh-soni/) Raji Singh Soni The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Used by Auden in concert with “limitation” to qualify View Article ### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-religious-and-aesthetic-states-in-w-h-audens-for-the-time-being-part-1-raji-singh-soni/) Raji Singh Soni The following is part one of an article that will be published in three successive installments. > TRINCULO Servant-monster! The folly of this island! View Article ### [Hegemony And Techno-Rationality – Toward An Aesthetic Soteriology (Mason Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/hegemony-and-techno-rationality-toward-an-aesthetic-soteriology-mason-davis/) Mason Davis To speak of aesthetics is not simply to consign art to its effects on sensibility, but to open up the configurations of experience that create new modalities of View Article ### [Life As Art – Aesthetic Virtue and Moral Obligation](/religioustheory/posts/life-as-art-aesthetic-virtue-and-moral-obligation/) editors Virtue ethics has received much attention throughout the last decades. 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