By Bruce Ellis Benson
How do the humanities tell and domesticate our carrier to God? during this addition to an award-winning sequence, distinctive thinker Bruce Ellis Benson rethinks what it capability to be creative. instead of viewing artwork as practiced by way of the few, he recovers the traditional Christian inspiration of featuring ourselves to God as artistic endeavors, reenvisioning artwork because the very center of our being: God calls us to improvise as residing artworks. Benson additionally examines the character of liturgy and connects artwork and liturgy in a brand new method. This booklet will attract philosophy, worship/liturgy, paintings, tune, and theology scholars in addition to readers attracted to attractive problems with worship and aesthetics in a postmodern context, together with Christian artists and worship leaders.
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