T&t Clark Handbook of Theology and the Arts

A widespread interest in the historical, socio-cultural and political embeddedness of theology and the arts permeates this thoughtful and incisive text. Key overarching and interlocking concerns are the relationship between form and content, the intensification of the metaphysical and the theological, the expansion of the epistemological possibilities of the theology-art conversation, and a robust understanding of the world as the theatre of God’s glory.

Theologians and artists have co-written several chapters, encouraging an essential and commendable dialogue. What both have in common throughout this volume is a thorough-going commitment to Scripture.

Part I surveys different approaches to the theology-arts conversation. Part II focuses on how particular art forms bring theological issues to the surface and how theological and denominational traditions shape the making and receiving of the arts. Part III delves into key topics in the current theology-arts scene and asks how artistic and theological performance can both speak to theological and artistic knowing, and help to celebrate and interrogate embodied, lived reality.

Overall, this volume presents the theology-arts conversation from a distinctly Christian perspective, as a witness of the Gospel of Christ to the world.

Imogen Adkins supervises undergraduates in the Divinity and Music faculties at Cambridge University, UK.

Stephen M.Garrett works for Global Scholars, USA, as the professional development director after having completed a 3 year stint as an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania.