Transcendence and Sensoriness: Perceptions, Revelation, and the Arts -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Art and Aesthetic Experience as Signals of Transcendence? -- PART 1: Approaching the Sphere of Sense Perception -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1: Theology and Poetic Openness -- 2: The Loss of the Aura and the New Sensuousness: Walter Benjamin on the Conditions for Sense Perception in the Age of Technology -- 3: Sensoriness and Transcendence: On the Aesthetic Possibility of Experiencing Divinity -- 4: The Phenomenon of Revelation: Jean-Luc Marion's Outline for a Phenomenology of Religion -- PART 2: Visual Art and Its Basic Conditions -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 5: The ornamenta ecclesiae in the Middle Ages: Materiality as Transcendence -- 6: Ottoman Sensoriness: Nature as a Source of Religious Cognition in Istanbul in the Mid- sixteenth Century -- 7: "I Can See Byzantine Art and Understand It": The Problematic of the Byzantine Images and the Immanent Transcendence in Per Kirkeby's Art -- 8: God among Thorns: On Anselm Kiefer's Pietà (2007) -- PART 3: Music and Transcendence -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 9: The Finished Fragment: On Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron -- 10: Time and Space in W.A. Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus (1791): Transcendence and the Fictive Space of the Musical Work -- 11: The Broken Hallelujah: The Super Hit as Sacred Space -- PART 4: Transcendence and Presence in Church Architecture -- Introduction to Part 4 -- 12: The Fullness of Space -- 13: Space, Wind and Light: On Transcendence and Early Church Architecture -- 14: On Earth as It is in Heaven: St. Hallvard's Church and Abbey -- PART 5: Theological Considerations: Imago Dei, Grace and Resurrection -- Introduction to Part 5 -- 15: Transcendence and the Use of Images.

16: Faith's Creative Mirror Reflection of Heavens's Bliss -- 17: The Ambiguity of the Demonic in Paul Tillich's View of Art -- 18: When We Dead Awaken: Art, Life and Death -- Final Considerations and Perspectives -- Index.