The Art of New Creation Trajectories in Theology and the Arts

Jeremy Begbie (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, where he serves as the director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA). He is also a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is author of a number of books, including Music, Modernity, and God; A Peculiar Orthodoxy; Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts; Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music; Theology, Music and Time; Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts. He is also a professionally trained musician and an ordained minister of the Church of England. Daniel Train (PhD, Baylor University) is assistant teaching professor of the practice of theology and the arts at Duke Divinity School, where he serves as the associate director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts (DITA). He is the co-editor of The Saint John's Bible and Its Tradition: Illuminating Beauty in the Twenty-First Century. W. David O. Taylor (ThD, Duke Divinity School) is associate professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the producer of a short film on the psalms with Bono and Eugene Peterson. An ordained Anglican minister, he is the author of Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life, Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts, and The Theater of God's Glory: Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts, the co-editor of Contemporary Art and the Church, and the editor of For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts.

Foreword by Natalie Carnes Preface Jeremy Begbie, Daniel Train, and W. David O. Taylor Introduction: "There Before Us": New Creation in Theology and the Arts Jeremy Begbie Part I: Soundings 1. In God's Good Time: Poetry and the Rhythms of New Creation Devon Abts 2. Sketching the Incarnation: Ephrem of Nisibis on the Theological Significance of the Artist's Craft Charles Augustine Rivera 3. Love's New Creation: Reconciling Two Approaches to Theology and Arts Daniel Train 4. Transcendence, the Arts, and New Creation: An Empirical Approach Kutter Callaway 5. The Artist and the Environmental Crisis: A Paradigm for Human Living Sara Schumacher 6. The White Savior as Diseased Creation: A Theological Diagnosis and Plea Jacquelynn Price-Linnartz 7. Singing Ourselves into the Future: Worship and the New Creation W. David O. Taylor 8. A Singing Creation: Music Making and Christian Maturity in Colossians 3:16 Amy Whisenand Krall Part II: Conversations 9. Placemaking for New Creation Jennifer Allen Craft and Norman Wirzba 10. We Flourish in a Syncopated Peace: Creation and New Creation in Micheal O'Siadhail's The Five Quintets Richard Hays and Micheal O'Siadhail 11. Creation and New Creation in J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Malcolm Guite and Judith Wolfe 12. Reflections on Performing: Living into the New Creation Elizabeth Klein and Shadwa Mussad Part III: Arts in Action 13. Leah Glenn, Dancer 14. Lanecia A. Rouse Tinsley, Visual Artist 15. Steve Prince, Visual Artist 16. Linnea Spransy Neuss, Visual Artist 17. Awet I. Andemicael, Musician The Surprising Faithfulness of God: A Sermon at DITA10 N. T. Wright Bibliography List of Contributors Image Credits General Index Scripture Index