Rahner's Primordial Words and Bernstein's Metaphorical Leaps: The Affinity of Art with Religion and Theology

Authors

Robert Masson, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

22 p.

Publication Date

Fall 2006

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Source Publication

Horizons

Source ISSN

0360-9669

Abstract

Karl Rahner's notion of primordial words and Leonard Bernstein's conception of music as intrinsically metaphorical are engaged to suggest that there is a fundamental affinity between artistic and religious imagination. The affinity is grounded, in part at least, in metaphoric process—an elemental cognitive act in which the human spirit is stretched so that its expressions can address what lies beyond them.

Comments

Published version. Horizons Vol. 33, No. 2 (Fall 2006): 276-297. DOI. © 2006 College Theology Society (Villanova University). Used with permission.

Recommended Citation

Masson, Robert, "Rahner's Primordial Words and Bernstein's Metaphorical Leaps: The Affinity of Art with Religion and Theology" (2006). Theology Faculty Research and Publications. 212.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theo_fac/212