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This article considers the aesthetic interdisciplinarity of the work and Weltanschauung of Donald Capps. It suggests three themes of Capps’ Weltanschauung: reframing, confusion, and empiricism. These themes converge in an image of calmness that epitomizes Capps’ aesthetic interdisciplinarity. Capps envisions a world that is heimlich (homelike), and his aesthetic therefore pursues “homemaking” in this world by virtue of enjoying a certain calmness in the process of pastoral counseling.
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Lee, S.U. Aesthetic Interdisciplinarity in Donald Capps’ Weltanschauung . Pastoral Psychol 58, 491–504 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11089-009-0246-2
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