Christian wisdom and the visual arts
This essay discusses the role of the visual arts in articulating Christian ‘Wisdom’ within a predominantly secular post-Christian, post-modern, Western culture. It also assesses the role of museums and ‘heritage’ culture in both the de-sacralization of Christian art and in the emergence of art itsel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2011
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| In: |
Theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 114, Issue: 3, Pages: 189-197 |
| Further subjects: | B
Visual Arts
B Post-modern B Secularization B Aesthetics B Meaning |
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| Summary: | This essay discusses the role of the visual arts in articulating Christian ‘Wisdom’ within a predominantly secular post-Christian, post-modern, Western culture. It also assesses the role of museums and ‘heritage’ culture in both the de-sacralization of Christian art and in the emergence of art itself as what Tillich called, ‘one form of the latent church’. Should we therefore try to re-calibrate for the twenty-first century the historical relationship of art to faith – and vice versa – within the Christian tradition, or should we start again ‘from where we are’? |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X10395461 |