著者

野村 良雄

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, no.3, pp.1-4, 1962-12-30

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Cult seems to be the alpha and omega of arts. F. W. J. Schelling unged that the Church and her Cult be treated as living works of art, but he could not realize such an aesthetics. Comparative liturgics, which compares mainly Western and Eastern rites of Christendom, is already existing. But in order to study liturgies of various religions as a whole, we need some new method and way of approach. Needless to say we should consult with science of religions, ethnology, musicology, history of art and theology and their results. But aesthetics seems to be most profitable for such an universal and fundamental research of liturgy. Here aestheics means an indispensable foundation of an existential metaphysics uniting mythological and scientifical worlds into a higher synthesis. By the way, our experiment. such as combining Byzantine chanting with liturgical music of Zen temple, has won an unexpected success. We hope our Aesthetics of Liturgy could contribute a little to an Itinerarium mentis ad Deum in modern civilisation.