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Placemaking and the Arts – Cultivating the Christian Life - Jennifer Allen Craft

Placemaking and the Arts – Cultivating the Christian Life

Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2018
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-0-8308-5067-9 (ISBN)
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What role does place play in the Christian life? In this STA volume, Jennifer Allen Craft gives a practical theology of the arts, contending that the arts place us in time, space, and community in ways that encourage us to be fully and imaginatively present in a variety of contexts: the natural world, our homes, our worshiping communities, and society.
We are, each one of us, situated in a particular place.
As embodied creatures, as members of local communities and churches, as people who live in a specific location in the world, we all experience the importance of place. But what role does place play in the Christian life and how might our theology of place be cultivated?
In this Studies in Theology and the Arts volume, Jennifer Allen Craft argues that the arts are a significant form of placemaking in the Christian life. The arts, she contends, place us in time, space, and community in ways that encourage us to be fully and imaginatively present in a variety of contexts: the natural world, our homes, our worshiping communities, and society. In so doing, the arts call us to pay attention to the world around us and invite us to engage in responsible practices in those places.
Through this practical theology of the arts, Craft shows how the arts can help us by cultivating our theological imagination, giving shape to the Christian life, and forming us more and more into the image of Christ.
The Studies in Theology and the Arts  series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.

Jennifer Allen Craft (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is associate professor of humanities and theology at Point University in West Point, Georgia, where she teaches courses in theology, philosophy, and the arts. Her work has been featured on Transpositions and in Contemporary Art and the Church: A Conversation Between Two Worlds.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Art, Place, and Christian Life in the World

1. Why Place? Why Art?

2. Cultivating Responsible Relationships: The Arts and the Natural World

3. Hospitality and Homecoming: The Arts and the Home

4. Divine Presence and Sense of Place: The Arts and the Church

5. Imagining God’s Kingdom: The Arts and Society

6. A Placed Theology of the Arts: Cultivating Theological Imagination and Sense of Place

Conclusion

Bibliography

Image Credits

Author Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort IL
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 384 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8308-5067-8 / 0830850678
ISBN-13 978-0-8308-5067-9 / 9780830850679
Zustand Neuware
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