Download or read book Sanctifying Art written by Deborah Sokolove and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an artist, Deborah Sokolove has often been surprised and dismayed by the unexamined attitudes and assumptions that the church holds about how artists think and how art functions in human life. By investigating these attitudes and tying them to concrete examples, Sokolove hopes to demystify art--to bring art down to earth, where theologians, pastors, and ordinary Christians can wrestle with its meanings, participate in its processes, and understand its uses. In showing the commonalities and distinctions among the various ways that artists themselves approach their work, Sanctifying Art can help the church talk about the arts in ways that artists will recognize. As a member of both the church and the art world, Sokolove is well-positioned to bridge the gap between the habits of thought that inform the discourse of the art world and those quite different ideas about art that are taken for granted by many Christians. When art is understood as intellectual, technical, and physical as well as ethereal, mysterious, and sacred, we will see it as an integral part of our life together in Christ, fully human and fully divine.
Download or read book Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church written by Lisa DeBoer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far — the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations. The first part of the book looks at Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism in turn — including case studies of specific congregations — showing how each tradition’s use of the visual arts reveals an underlying ecclesiology. DeBoer then focuses on six themes that emerge when Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant uses of the visual arts are examined together — the arts as expressions of the church’s local and universal character, the meanings attributed to particular styles of art for the church, the role of the arts in enculturating the gospel, and more. DeBoer’s Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church will focus and deepen the thinking of pastors, worship leaders, artists, students, and laypeople regarding what the arts might do in the midst of their congregations.
Download or read book The Clergy and Art written by Edward Fairbrother Strange and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.
Download or read book For the Beauty of the Church written by W. David O. Taylor and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of your local church. Without art--music, song, dance, etc.--it would be a much poorer place. But if protestants have any vision for the arts, it tends to be a thin one. This unique book is an attempt to contribute to a robust, expansive vision for the church and the arts. Its specific aim is to show how the many parts of the landscape of church and art hold together. You can think of it as a kind of helicopter flyover, but one with expert pilots. The guides include the likes of Eugene Peterson, Lauren Winner, Jeremy Begbie, Andy Crouch, and John Witvliet, helping to inspire readers and empower pastor-leaders with a vision of the church and the arts that is compelling, far-seeing, and profoundly transformative.
Download or read book Spaces for Spirit written by Nancy Chinn and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Real art for worship has no patterns to follow, no slick tricks, nothing to mimic or adapt to your local congregational space. It has no guarantees. Real art rises from interior places that require intense search, many failures, a reaching toward that which has never been done or said in quite that way before. This is its prophetic edge. The time and materials and spirit it takes to develop an artist's capacities to dream are extraordinary. What does our church do to support such a person? Do we not need to demand the same level of prayerful, disciplined formation from our artists as we do from our priests or pastors? Painter and textile artist Nancy Chinn invites you to accompany her in a wide-ranging, vigorous discussion about art for worship--from theory to technicque and from philosophy to practice."--Cover.
Download or read book The History of the Church in Art written by Rosa Giorgi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this guide is to explain features and symbols in religious works of art as they relate to the history of the Church at the time these works were commissioned and created."--Introduction.
Download or read book Not Purely Decorative written by Lauren Heather Lay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Worship written by Anne Dawtry and published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very practical book about the understanding of the role of art works in churches and in worship, how they may be commissioned, where they should be placed and how to hold art exhibitions. It is designed to deepen understanding about how art can enhance worship, and to encourage partnerships between the Church and artists. Details of relevant organisations and artists networks are included.
Download or read book The Art of Worship written by Greg Scheer and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary worship continues to gain strength as the form of worship of choice for many churches across the country. The Art of Worship is a complete resource to which a musician or pastor can turn when asked to lead contemporary music. It provides in-depth instruction to every aspect of contemporary worship leadership--from assembling the team to choosing the music to conducting rehearsals. Author Greg Scheer takes a balanced, holistic approach, embracing the contemporary style without denying older traditions and encouraging excellence without ignoring the realities of the local church context. Worship team leaders, musicians, and pastors looking for a quality, comprehensive resource need look no further.
Download or read book The Christian remembrancer or The Churchman s Biblical ecclesiastical literary miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the Art of Preaching addressed to the Clergy In verse written by Anthony MOORE (Vicar of Stratton.) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and the Church A Fractious Embrace written by Jonathan Koestle-Cate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations and commissions for ecclesiastical spaces. Rather than 'religious art' reflecting Christian ideology, current practices frequently initiate projects that question the values and traditions of the host space, or present objects and events that challenge its visual conventions. In the light of these developments, this book asks what conditions are favourable to enhancing and expanding the possibilities of church-based art, and how can these conditions be addressed? What viable language or strategies can be formulated to understand and analyse art's role within the church? Focusing on concepts drawn from anthropology, comparative religion, art theory, theology and philosophy, this book formulates a lexicon of terms built around the notion of encounter in order to review the effective uses and experience of contemporary art in churches. The author concludes with the prognosis that art for the church has reached a critical and decisive phase in its history, testing the assumption that contemporary art should be a taken-for-granted element of modern church life. Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace uniquely combines conceptual analysis, critical case studies and practical application in a rigorous and inventive manner, dealing specifically with contemporary art of the past twenty-five years, and the most recent developments in the church's policies for the arts.
Download or read book Putting Art Back in Its Place written by John E. Skillen and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most Christians today view art from a distance and Christian discussions of art focus primarily on artists as lonely dreamers, this has not always been the case. In Putting Art (Back) in its Place Dr. John Skillen, an expert in medieval and Renaissance art and literature, calls for the church to come together as one body to reclaim that rich heritage where art touched the entire believing community. For quite some time, art played a vital role in the life of the community, assisting Christian community in performing actions that defined their corporate work and identity (their liturgies). Patrons commissioned artists, advisors helped to determine subject matter, and the whole church celebrated and partook in what was eventually displayed. Skillen offers readers a compelling call to foster a vibrant culture of the arts by restoring and cultivating active and respectful relationships among artists, patrons, scholars, communities and the art they create. Putting Art (Back) in its Place equips laity and clergy to think historically about the vibrant role the visual arts have played--and could again play--in the life of the church and its mission.
Download or read book Contemporary Art and the Church written by W. David O. Taylor and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church and the contemporary art world often find themselves in an uneasy relationship in which misunderstanding and mistrust abound. Drawn from the 2015 biennial CIVA conference, these reflections from theologians, pastors, and practicing artists imagine the possibility of a renewed and mutually fruitful relationship between contemporary art and the church.
Download or read book Images Or Idols written by Keith Walker and published by Canterbury Press Norwich. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to engage the interest of artists and churchpeople alike. The Church and the visual arts have become estranged and both suffer because of the ignorance and hostility that fuel the estrangement. Clergy and Parochial Church Councils (and their equivalents in non-Anglican churches) need to consider the rightful place of the sacred visual artist within the Church much more searchingly than is usually the case at the moment. All who care for the visual arts, for God, or for both, should care for the subject of this book. It will not always breed agreement, but it will stimulate thought and deepen perception.
Download or read book A Vision Realized written by John Frederick Oertel and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
