La teología de la belleza en el entorno italiano

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This doctoral thesis proposes the study of the theology of beauty in Italian theologians. In the last third of the 20th century, we find a greater presence in theology of the theme of beauty. Many authors have identified the via pulchritudinis as a privileged way of encountering the good and the true, realizing its ability to address the heart directly and not run along the speculative paths of reason or the dictates of morality quite so much. Beauty has had a special reception in Italy, for historical and cultural reasons. In this sense, the thesis has been structured in two parts. A first part provides context and the second focuses on the theme of the thesis, which is to study the theology of beauty in certain key Italian theologians. This research collects the stages that the theology of beauty has gone through until its manifestation in the Italian sphere. The study of context starts from Dostoevsky's prophetic intuition "beauty will save the world." It continues with the theological project of Von Balthasar, which is picked up especially by Luigi Giussani and embodied in the movement Comunione e Liberazione. Added to this is the reception in the West of the oriental sensibility, and in particular of icons, together with the theological approach of Pavel Evdokimov. All this is welcomed in the Italian sphere both by the Italian Episcopal Conference and by the Pontifical Council for Culture. The second part of the doctoral thesis forms the central part of the work where the contributions of certain key theologians who have developed a theology of beauty are collected. We refer to Bruno Forte, Pierangelo Sequeri, Tomá pidlik, John Navone and Marko Rupnik. Keywords: Theology of Beauty, Italy, via pulchritudinis