T&T Clark Handbook of Theology and the Arts

Introducing readers to the conversation between Christian theology and the arts, this handbook offers a survey of the current research in this field, and opens avenues for future work. Across the chapters there is a concern for the cultural and political embeddedness of theology and the arts, the relationship between form and content (in both art and theology), and a robust understanding of the world as the theater of God''s glory. A thorough-going commitment to Scripture is also woven into the many different habits of thought that are represented in this volume.Part I surveys different approaches to the theology-arts conversation. Part II focuses on how particular art forms bringing theological issues to the surface and how theological and denominational traditions shape the making and receiving of the arts. Part III delves into key topics in the current theology-arts scene and asks how artistic and theological performance can both speak to theological and artistic knowing and help to celebrate and interrogate embodied, lived reality. Overall, this volume presents the theology-arts conversation from a distinctly Christian perspective, as a witness of the gospel of Christ to the world.>

List of contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Foreword by Mako Fujimara

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Editors' Introduction - Sketching the contours of the contemporary theology-arts conversation

Part I: Different Approaches to the Theology-Arts Conversation

1. Theologies of Art - Trevor Hart (St Andrews Scottish Episcopal Church, UK)

2. Theology Through the Arts - Jeremy Begbie (Duke Divinity School, USA)

3. Art as Theology - David Brown (Fellow of British Academy, UK)

4. The Correlation of Theology and Art - Wessel Stoker (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)

5. Theopoetics of the Broken Form - Heather Walton (Glasgow University, UK)

Part II: Form and Mutual Formation of Theology and the Arts

Theology and Artistic Forms

6. A soul beautifully disposed' Embodied participation and the re-forming work of music - Jeffery Ames (Belmont University, USA) and Steven R. Guthrie (Belmont University, USA)

7. 'In the beginning was.' How poetry breaks open the theological Word - Rachel Mann (Manchester Met University & Sarum College, UK)

8. Why Lyric? A Theological Perspective - Elizabeth S. Dodd (Sarum College, UK)

9. The Novel - Alison Milbank (University of Nottingham, UK)

10. Drama, theatre and theology - Shannon Craigo-Snell (Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA) and Todd E. Johnson (Senior Pastor of First Covenant Church, USA)

11. Dancing as creatures do - Ellen F. Davis (Duke Divinity School, USA), Elisa Schroth (Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet, USA) and Morley van Yperen (Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet)

12. Visual art as practical theology: learning from Theaster Gates - William Dyrness (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) and Maria Fee (Independent Theologian and Artist, USA)

13. How film can foster theological insight - Robert Johnston (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)

14. The theological importance of play: engaging with popular culture - Clive Marsh (Queen's Foundation, UK) and Adam Sanders ( Birmingham District of the Methodist Church, UK)

15. Theology in location: architecture as a medium of theological exploration - Murray Rae (University of Otago, New Zealand, New Zealand)

Art and Theological Traditions

16. A Thomistic perspective on the conversation between theology and the arts - Lawrence Feingold (Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, USA)

17. The theophanic image: theology and art in the Orthodox icon - C.A. Tsakiridou (La Salle University, USA)

18. Theology, the arts and the Reformed tradition - Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (King's College, London) and Peter S. Smith (Independent Artist, UK)

19. Re-engaged imagination: Evangelicals in theology and the arts - Taylor Worley (Wheaton College, USA)

20. Give me that old-time religion! Towards a Black Pentecostal aesthetics - Dulcie Dixon McKenzie (The Queen's Foundation, UK)

Part III: Prevalent Themes in the Theology-Arts Conversation

Theological performance

21. Trinity, incarnation and the creative act - Katherine Sonderegger (Virginia Theological Seminary, USA) and Margaret Adams Parker (Independent Artist, USA)

22. Art, creation and grace - Thomas Gardner (Virginia Tech, USA)

23. Beauty and revelation: this great absence. A conversation between theology and sculpture - Carol Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) and Charles Hewlings (Independent Artist, UK)

24. 'My name is Legion!' Biblical exegesis, embodiment and the visual arts - Christine E. Joynes (University of Oxford, UK)

25. 'Monotonous rhythm on the heart of God?' Drumming, theological aesthetics and Christianity in the Caribbean - Anna Kasafi Perkins (St Michael's Theological College, Jamaica) and Carlton Turner (The Queen's Foundation, UK)

26. Christianity and tragedy - Richard Harries (King's College London, UK)

27. Sin and redemption: an exploration of the musical fragment - Férdia J. Stone-Davis (Margaret Beaufort Institute, UK)

28. Imagining the end: eschatology in art and literature - Judith Wolfe (University of St Andrews, UK)

29. Liturgy and the arts - W. David O. Taylor (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)

30. Sacrament, the arts and the performance of the Christian theological imagination - R. David Nelson (Baylor University Press, USA)

31. Flagships of the imagination, hope and freedom: cathedrals and visual art - Julie Gittoes (Area Dean of Barnet, UK)

Artistic performance

32. Creativity, freedom and the artist's vocation - George Corbett (University of St Andrews, UK)

33. Imagination as a means of freedom and healing - Carlene J. Brown (Seattle Pacific University, USA) and Kerry Dearborn (Seattle Pacific University)

34. Space and time through the built environment - Timothy J. Gorringe (University of Exeter, UK)

35. The primacy of the gendered body: praxis, method and meaning-making in liberation theology and choreographic research - Christopher-Rasheem McMillan (The University of Iowa, USA)

36. Art, theology, race - Brian Bantum (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA)

37. Political theology and the arts - Richard Bourne (York St John University, UK)

38. Postscript: Theology~Art seeking (re)creative understanding: on seeing and knowing in the context of visual art research - Stephen M. Garrett (Rivendell Institute at Yale University / Global Scholars, USA)

Index

About the author

Stephen M.Garrett is Senior Fellow with the Rivendell Institute at Yale University, USA, and Curriculum Vice-President for Global Scholars. He was formerly Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Imogen Adkins is trained in theology and music and teaches Philosophy and Religion at Stowe School, UK. She has previously supervised undergraduates in the Divinity and Music faculties at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Imogen Adkins, Stephen M Garrett
• Assisted by: Imogen Adkins (Editor), Stephen M. Garrett (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9780567683755
• ISBN: 978-0-567-68375-5
• No. of pages: 584
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 250 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Companions; T&T Clark Handbooks; Religion and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; World, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Theology, Christian theology