Aesthetics

Balthasar, Hans Urs von. The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. San Francisco and New York: Ignatius Press and Crossroad Publications, 1983.
This seven volume set of texts is a seminal and comprehensive treatment of the subject of theological aesthetics.

Barbour, Ian. Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.
This text is a useful and accessible discussion on the topic of aesthetics and its relation to ultimate reality.

Barrow, John D. The Artful Universe. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Begbie, Jeremy. Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts. Edinburgh, Scotland: T & T Clark, 1991.

Brown, Frank Burch. Religious Aesthetics: A Theological Study of Making and Meaning. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, and Hampshire, England: Macmillan, 1989.

Dillenberger, John. A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities: The Visual Arts and the Church. New York, NY: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1986.

Dubay, Richard. The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999.

Harries, Richard. Art and the Beauty of God: A Christian Understanding. London, New York: Mowbray, A Casell Imprint, 1993.

Hofstadter, D. R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books Inc., 1979.
Deep connections among things so different that few people would have seen them.

Martin, James Alfred. Beauty and Holiness: The Dialogue Between Aesthetics and Religion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Miles, Margaret Ruth. Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1985.

Nichols, Aiden. The Art of God Incarnate: Theology and Image in Christian Tradition. New York: Paulist Press, 1980.

Richter, Klaus. Die Herkunft des Schönen: Grundzüge der Evolutionären Ästhetik. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1999.

Sherry, Patrick. Spirit and Beauty: An Introduction to Theological Aesthetics. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Van der Leeuw, G. Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
This text is an early and seminal work in the area of theological aesthetics.

Viladesau, Richard. Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
This is a seminal work in the area of theological aesthetics, and is an interdisciplinary engagement of the subjects of art, literature, and religion.

Viladesau, Richard. Theology and the Arts: Encountering God through Music, Art, and Rhetoric. New York, New York: Paulist Press, 2000.
A very important work in the fields of theological aesthetics, Christianity and the arts.

Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. New York: The Free Press, 1967.
In this book Whitehead develops an aesthetic philosophy of nature in which the "deeper reality" of the universe is its adventurous aim toward more and more intense versions of beauty.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.