Art and the Experience of the Divine (eBook)

Anne Searle Bent, Ian S. Markham (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
100 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-7574-7 (ISBN)

Infos

How do people find faith? For centuries the focus of the church has been on providing arguments that might persuade a person rationally that faith is plausible. This book invites people to find faith through experience. By taking a great work of art, the reader is invited to meditate and pray through that art to God. Faith is primarily an experience of the heart, not an argument that appeals to the head.
The book opens with a framing case for the centrality of the visual arts as a vehicle to experience the divine. Engaging with the literature, a distinctive case is made for a "spiritual theory of art," according to which art makes spiritual reality present to the seeker.
Then there are twenty-two devotional reflections on art that show how properly reading a painting or a drawing can open up fresh ways of thinking about the divine that are compelling and powerful. Thus, we are guided towards seeing truly great art as a focus for prayer and meditation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2024
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Schlagworte: Anne Searle Bent • ART • Art and religion • Art and the Experience of the Divine • Christian art and symbolism • Christianity • Christianity and art • Christian life and practice • christian living • Christian theology • Devotional • devotional material • Ian S. Markham • Meditations • Old Master Drawings • Religious • Religious Art • Spirituality • spirituality in art • Spiritual life • subjects and themes • Theology
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-7574-6 / 1666775746
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-7574-7 / 9781666775747