ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the first aesthetic category that ought to be considered is a dramatics which is the unitive revelatory experience. It conveys the sense of Beauty, rather than the beautiful, is to set up a new possibility of aesthetics and a new agenda. There exists an aesthetics that has an intrinsic religious dimension and, requires a new list of aesthetic categories. Indeed, the author's contention is that the sense of Beauty reveals something beyond our experience and unites us to that revelation. By pointing out that the sense of Beauty comes to us as feeling not only felt but also received, as datum and donum, is outlined of a proposal for theological aesthetics. A genuine theological aesthetics thus requires a new list of aesthetic categories. One way to raise the issue of the need for new aesthetic categories is by asking whether contemporary theories of the beautiful truly grasp all that is sacred and spiritual in arts.
