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Prof. George Corbett explores the philosophical and theological foundations of beauty through Mozart’s music, highlighting the "pathway of beauty" as a means of encountering the divine and engaging culture.
This lecture was given on March 13th, 2025, at University of Edinburgh.
For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.
About the Speaker:
George Corbett is Professor of Theology at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of Cephas (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology). He researches and teaches theology and the arts (with specialisms in Dante studies, sacred music, and theological aesthetics) and historical theology (with specialisms in medieval theology, Aquinas’s theology and its influence, and Catholic theology). His books include Dante’s Christian Ethics (2020), Dante and Epicurus (2013), and, as editor or co-editor, Vertical Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ (2015-18), Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twentieth-Century (2019), and Music and Spirituality: Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Christian Worship (2024).
Keywords: Aesthetics, Beauty, Catholicism, Culture, Evangelization, Don Giovanni, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Incarnation, Mozart, Pope Benedict XVI
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Prof. George Corbett explores the philosophical and theological foundations of beauty through Mozart’s music, highlighting the "pathway of beauty" as a means of encountering the divine and engaging culture.
This lecture was given on March 13th, 2025, at University of Edinburgh.
For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events.
About the Speaker:
George Corbett is Professor of Theology at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of Cephas (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology). He researches and teaches theology and the arts (with specialisms in Dante studies, sacred music, and theological aesthetics) and historical theology (with specialisms in medieval theology, Aquinas’s theology and its influence, and Catholic theology). His books include Dante’s Christian Ethics (2020), Dante and Epicurus (2013), and, as editor or co-editor, Vertical Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ (2015-18), Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twentieth-Century (2019), and Music and Spirituality: Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Christian Worship (2024).
Keywords: Aesthetics, Beauty, Catholicism, Culture, Evangelization, Don Giovanni, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Incarnation, Mozart, Pope Benedict XVI
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