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Author : William A. Dyrness
Release : 2001-11
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 975/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visual Faith by : William A. Dyrness
Download or read book Visual Faith written by William A. Dyrness. This book was released on 2001-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing, substantive look into the relationship between the church and the world of art.
Author : William A. Dyrness
Release : 2001-11-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 467/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visual Faith (Engaging Culture) by : William A. Dyrness
Download or read book Visual Faith (Engaging Culture) written by William A. Dyrness. This book was released on 2001-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can art enhance and enrich the Christian faith? What is the basis for a relationship between the church and visual imagery? Can the art world and the Protestant church be reconciled? Is art idolatry and vanity, or can it be used to strengthen the church? Grounded in historical and biblical research, William Dyrness offers students and scholars an intriguing, substantive look into the relationship between the church and the world of art. Faith and art were not always discordant. According to Dyrness, Israel understood imagery and beauty as reflections of God's perfect order; likewise, early Christians used art to teach and inspire. However, the Protestant church abandoned visual arts and imagery during the Reformation in favor of the written word and has only recently begun to reexamine art's role in Christianity and worship. Dyrness affirms this renewal and argues that art, if reflecting the order and wholeness of the world God created, can and should play an important role in modern Christianity.
Author : Craig Detweiler
Release : 2003-11-01
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 324/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture) by : Craig Detweiler
Download or read book A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture) written by Craig Detweiler. This book was released on 2003-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the glittering tinsel of Hollywood to the advertising slogan you can't get out of your head, we are surrounded by popular culture. In A Matrix of Meanings Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor analyze aspects of popular culture and ask, What are they doing? What do they represent? and What do they say about the world in which we live? Rather than deciding whether Bono deserves our admiration, the authors examine the phenomenon of celebrity idolization. Instead of deciding whether Nike's "Just do it" campaign is morally questionable, they ask what its success reflects about our society. A Matrix of Meanings is a hip, entertaining guide to the maze of popular culture. Plentiful photos, artwork, and humorous sidebars make for delightful reading. Readers who distrust popular culture as well as those who love it will find useful insight into developing a Christian worldview in a secular culture.
Author : Jeremy Begbie
Release : 2007-12
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 954/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Resounding Truth by : Jeremy Begbie
Download or read book Resounding Truth written by Jeremy Begbie. This book was released on 2007-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned scholar and musician helps Christians respond with theological discernment to music.
Author : David Morgan
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 226/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Embodied Eye by : David Morgan
Download or read book The Embodied Eye written by David Morgan. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and profoundly shaped by social practice. Morgan's bold, thoughtful interpretations will fascinate art historians and students of visual culture as well as historians of religion.” -Pepe Karmel, Department of Art History, New York University "The Embodied Eye is an important and truly groundbreaking book. It represents a substantive and quite fascinating extension of David Morgan's previous work- especially as it impressively shows us how 'seeing' is the primary medium of social life, and materially integrates the body of the individual and the body of the group. Morgan is unquestionably the pioneering theorist in the whole emergent field of Visual and Culture Studies as it relates to religion and art." -Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor, Lehigh University “Under David Morgan’s inspiring guidance, readers are taken on a dazzling journey through religious images that mediate worlds of faith. Embedding vision in the body, this book stands out with its thought-provoking approach to religious media as material and embodied interfaces that underpin the social construction of the sacred.” -Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University
