Ben Quash
Theology
“Josephine Gabelman exhibits a high-spirited belief that theological redescriptions of the world can disclose that world to us more fully. She combines a Wildean delight in pointing out the failure of narrowly conceived 'realism' as a literary method (because of the way it starves the human imagination's innate and essential striving for mythopoetic meaning) with a performance of something like what Dietrich Bonhoeffer once called 'hilaritas': in her case, a confidence that, in its radicalness, a Christian mythopoesis discloses the world's truest and surest goods. It is a bold and exhilarating book.”
Arts & Literature
“Theologically profound, art-historically wide-ranging, and—best of all—direct, candid, and generous in tone. Bezalel’s Body does what it tells us that good art does: it helps us better appreciate the wonder of our own substantial reality, and that of others, and does so in a reconciling spirit. That is, it would like us to be more connected and better connected. The book is refreshing and stimulating in equal measure, with the potential not only to inform its readers but to transform them.”
Arts & Literature
“The biblical injunction to be ‘imitators of God’ is one of the most mysterious and daunting in the Christian canon, and any attempt to respond to it adequately will be disorientating as well as—potentially—transformative. In this study, Jim Watkins enters into dialogue with a range of modern artists and theologians to explore the ways in which the imitation of God may be envisaged afresh through attention to models of artistic creativity. In doing so, he offers insights into the nature of human agency more generally (an agency that is only free because it is also both risky and other-regarding), seeing such agency as a form of participation in God’s work of redemption. It is a bold, serious-minded, and ethically passionate book.”
Arts & Literature
“With deep roots in the literary and the visual arts respectively, the co-authors of this book bring an exceptional understanding of 'how art works' to their lively faith. They know from experience that the interaction of faith with art can be transformative, and this is a book that--with fresh, practical directness as well as sensitivity and insight--undoubtedly seeks to transform. Individuals and church communities will find their eyes and ears opened to God in new ways by this book, precisely as their hands are invited to pick up a pen or paintbrush. It is a book full of epiphanies.”
Theology
“This book is a rich, confident, and generous exemplification of how the discipline of theology and the arts is coming of age. Both expansive and closely attentive in its vision, it proves the value of drawing deeply on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit to frame an enlivening discourse about the life-giving power of art.”
Arts & Literature
“This celebratory book reverberates with the joy of something fulfilled (ten years of DITA, a taste of whose repeatedly rich harvests can be sampled here) and the even-greater joy of something anticipated: the full realization of God's new creation. The thought of scholars, the testimony of artistic practitioners, and the wisdom of good conversationalists all combine here to prove that whether we are engaged in making art, or theology, or conversation, or all three, we are at the same time being made. Our task is to let that making be God's work in us.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“For most of us brought up with the Western canon of Scripture, 1 Enoch is like a relative who emigrated long ago. Its words are occasionally referred to in passing (even quoted) by our Bibles, but we've never encountered their source. This remarkable set of essays changes all that. First Enoch here rejoins the family of texts to which it is so deeply related and addresses our present concerns in its own powerful voice.”
Theology
“'The beauty of holiness' has long been a familiar phrase with a somewhat elusive meaning. With a combination of scholarly precision and infectious relish for the theological task, Junius Johnson gives a new clarity to this phrase. Beauty is interpreted as the manifestation of a sanctity whose fullness we both remember and anticipate as we encounter a world of creatures densely, dazzlingly, and divinely interconnected.”
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