caa a22 4500 397551703 CHVBK 20180308164752.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199603 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/litthe/10.1.1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/litthe/10.1.1 PRESENCE OF GOD? TOWARDS THE POSSIBILITY OF A THEOLOGICAL AESTHETIC IN AN ANALYSIS OF GEORGE STEINER [Elektronische Daten] [Karl-Josef Kuschel, Andrew Hass: translator] This article is a critical examination of George Steiner's book Real Presences (1989). This book is, for a literary critic, a bold and provocative attempt to describe anew the experience of language and art as an experience of transcendence. To Steiner, every seriously taken work of art is an opus metaphysicum. The article shows that Steiner's venture implies a sharp criticism of a literary approach which has cut out completely the religious dimension from its methodological discourse. The article also contains a criticism of a theology (Karl Barth and the consequences of his thought) which continually views the artistic and the aesthetic with a mistrust and stands over against them with a rejection justified on the grounds of revelation theology. The critical theological query against Steiner's book consists in the demand to describe more precisely the concept of transcendence. Steiner's approach runs the risk of taking over every great work of art for a "religious” experience of transcendence, and ignores too much the role of the recipient for whom a work of art can bring about different experiences. Only an unambiguous definition of what transcendence is can make a work of art into a medium of a transcendence-experience. In exact theological terms, a work of art is the place of probability, of seeming truth [Wahr-Scheinliches], in the double sense of the word. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence Kuschel Karl-Josef University of Tubingen, Germany aut Hass Andrew University of Tubingen, Germany trl Literature and Theology Oxford University Press 10/1(1996-03), 1-19 0269-1205 10:1<1 1996 10 litthe https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/10.1.1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/10.1.1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kuschel Karl-Josef University of Tubingen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hass Andrew University of Tubingen, Germany trl NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Literature and Theology Oxford University Press 10/1(1996-03), 1-19 0269-1205 10:1<1 1996 10 litthe Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford