The Art of Christian Reflection (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
272
Utgivningsdatum
2018-10-30
Förlag
Baylor University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
1
Illustrationer
1 colour illustration
Dimensioner
229 x 197 x 20 mm
Vikt
627 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781481304269

The Art of Christian Reflection

av Heidi J Hornik
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2018-10-30
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Contemporary Christians interact with art very differently than Christians of centuries past. Christian art was never intended for mere enjoyment, but was used to express the most important features of Christian faith and to suggest models for Christian practices. In The Art of Christian Reflection, art historian Heidi Hornik reconnects art to ethics, beauty to behavior, and form to function in classical artwork. Over eighty different pieces of art - paintings, sculptures, and architecture - are the subject of Hornik's careful analysis and commentary, which highlights the ethical implications inherent to each work. Specifically, Hornik explores how art may foster Christian virtues such as forgiveness, patience, and generosity. Hornik also discusses art's influence on moral issues such as racism, prisons, violence, poverty, and environmentalism as well as historic Christian praxes such as prayer, work, Bible study, and worship. The Art of Christian Reflection paints the church's art as not only a courageous witness to the truth and reality of the gospel, but as an act of discipleship. It reveals the ethics of works not associated with the church but of value to contemporary Christians. Art can lead the faithful who reflect on it to become not only ""hearers"" and ""seers"" of the Word - but ""doers"" as well.
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The 80-some works of Christian art she selected reflect the gamut of the Christian enterprise and emphasize the ethical role of the arts in addressing matters ranging from racism, poverty, and violence to feminism and environmentalism. Expanding traditional boundaries, Hornik looks at Christian art as narrative appropriate for prayer, praxis, Bible study, and worship. --David B. Gowler, The Dr. Lovick Pierce and Bishop George F. Pierce Chair of Religion, Oxford College of Emory University "Choice" Through the interweaving of visual analysis, scripture, and historical context, Hornik draws her audience into the narratives surrounding works of art and connects them to elements of Christian discipleship. The resulting effect is that the reader feels pulled into a form of embodied discipleship that is not meant to be merely absorbed but to be engaged in as an active participant. --Holland Prior "Reading Religion"

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Heidi J. Hornik is Professor of Art History at Baylor University.

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