Wheaton Theology Conference Series: The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts
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Overview
God. Beauty. Art. Theology. Editors Mark Husbands, Roger Lundin and Daniel J. Treier present ten essays from the 2006 Wheaton Theology Conference that explore a Christian approach to beauty and the arts. Theology has much to contribute in providing a place for the arts in the Christian life, and the arts have much to contribute to the quality of Christian life, worship and witness. The 2006 Wheaton Theology Conference explored a wide-ranging Christian approach to divine beauty and the earthly arts. Written and illustrated by artists and theologians, these essays illuminate for us the Christian significance of the visual arts, music and literature, as well as sounding forth the theological meaning and place of the arts in a fallen world--fallen, yet redeemed by Christ. Here is a veritable feast for pastors, artists, theologians and students eager to consider the profound but not necessarily obvious connection between Christianity and the arts.
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“Third, a theological account of created beauty will return repeatedly to the Holy Spirit as the one who realizes now in our midst what has been achieved in the Son, thus anticipating the future.” (Page 27)
“Fifth, a theological account of created beauty will be wary of closed harmonies.” (Page 29)
“Fourth, a theological account of created beauty, oriented to Christ and the Spirit, and thus to a trinitarian God, will delight in a diversity of particulars. If beauty’s integrity involves a ‘proportion of parts,’ these parts are just that, distinct parts or particulars in various measured relations with each other.” (Page 28)
“Sixth, an account of created beauty will recognize that beauty elicits desire—a desire to dwell with and enjoy that which we experience as beautiful. This links up with those currents in the ‘great theory’ that speak of beauty’s brightness (and thus attraction), and the pleasure it affords upon contemplation.” (Page 30)
“Creation testifies to God’s beauty, but in its own ways; or better: God testifies to his own beauty through creation’s own beauty.” (Page 25)