T&T Clark Handbook of Theology and the Arts

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. 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.

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 (University of St Andrews, UK)

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

3. Art as Theology - David Brown (University of St Andrews, UK)

4. The Correlation of Theology and Art - Wessel Stoker (Free University, 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 Cathedral, 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 (Fuller Studio, 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 (Oral Roberts University, USA)

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

Art and Theological Traditions

16. A Thomistic perspective on the conversation between theology and the arts – Lawrence Feingold (St Paul Center, 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 (University of the Arts London, UK)

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 (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica) and Carlton Turner (The Queen's Foundation, UK)

26. Christianity and tragedy – Richard Harries (Gresham College, UK)

27. Sin and redemption: an exploration of the musical fragment – Férdia J. Stone-Davis (University of Cambridge, 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 (Baker Academic, USA)

31. Flagships of the imagination, hope and freedom: cathedrals and visual art – Julie Gittoes (St Augustine's College of Theology, 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-Raheem 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 (University of Leeds, UK)

38. Postscript: Theology~Art seeking (re)creative understanding: on seeing and knowing in the context of visual art research – Stephen M. Garrett (Global Scholars, USA)

Index