art and theology
Thinking musically about God
One note fills the whole space. Then we add another—and a third.
The value of God-shaped art
T. S. Eliot and the other modernist theologian-poets knew that artists are makers of worlds.
Christ the artist, we the portfolio
We are God’s artifacts—beautiful, incomplete, and mysterious.
by Samuel Wells
How black-and-white becomes color in Georges Rouault's art
Some painters mesmerize me. Albert Pinkham Ryder, Mark Rothko, and Georges Rouault, for example. Their work glows, albeit in different ways. Yet it’s Rouault I continue to follow.
Why Rouault?
Images of dignity
I grew up around art and a few artists. I looked to people who had a reverence for the world at large. A natural contemplative awareness developed, as in many children before it is covered over. Call it awe, which Abraham Heschel describes as an “intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.”
No wonder I became both a photographer and an Episcopal deacon.
Found Theology, by Ben Quash
For Ben Quash, scripture and tradition are givens. Our task is to discover and reinterpret what we have been given.
reviewed by Amy Frykholm
Painting Pentecost
Painter Sawai Chinnawong saturates the outpouring of the Spirit with the colors Thai art traditionally associates with the holy.
by Amos Yong and Jonathan A. Anderson