Robin M. Jensen is the Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History
of Christian Art and Worship at Vanderbilt University, where she
teaches both in the Divinity School and the Art History Department,
and directs a program on Art, Religion, and Contemporary Culture.
She has written several books, articles, and essays on the subject
of early Christian art and its intersection with Christian theology
and practice. She is currently president for the Society for the
Arts in Religious and Theological Studies. Kimberly Vrudny is an
associate professor of systematic theology at the University of St.
Thomas. She teaches and publishes in the areas of political
theology, theological aesthetics, and the arts. She is also
the senior editor of the academic journal ARTS: The Arts in
Religious and Theological Studies.
Every essay explores ideas that are fundamental to the visual
expression of the sacred and to our receptivity to it. Fully
illustrated in color, the book includes works by eminent artists,
and introduces a gallery of refreshingly unexpected works by lesser
knowns.Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art, and
Architecture
Any reader interested in the intersection of art and theology will
find this book a helpful and engaging read.Transpositions
The volume serves as a versatile pedagogical resource for, among
others, graduate students in the visual arts, religion and culture,
and systematic and practical theology. It conveys the
transformative power of modern art to perceive and respond to the
social reality in dramatically alternative ways and cultivate
skills of visual literacy.Theological Studies
In five different sections, the essays in this volume provide
constructive and fruitful ways for thinking about the relationship
between Christian theology and the visual arts.Christian Scholar’s
Review
The essays in Visual Theology are exemplary in refusing to treat
the visual arts as merely illustrative or as something inevitably
calling for a verbal theological answer or completion. Daring to
open our eyes in truly imaginative ways to numerous significant (if
often lesser known) works, artists, and media, these astute
interpreters also attend to ethos and ethics. They freshly envision
cultural and religious communities of the past, and on into the
future. The dedicatee, Wilson Yates, could not have been better
honored.Frank Burch Brown, Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of
Religion and the Arts, Christian Theological Seminary,
Indianapolis, Indiana
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