Heidi Hadsell

Art and the Experience of the Divine

Arts & Literature

“The rich and ancient relationship between religious experience and beliefs and art is a fascinating topic to explore. The approach of the authors (a Christian theologian and an expert in Old Master Drawings) is fresh, informal, and invitational. The authors invite the reader to think with them, in an informed and interdisciplinary way, about how art can and does inform and enrich religious beliefs and feelings and, in turn, how religious beliefs and feelings help shape one’s perceptions of works of art.”

The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur'an

World Religions

“A remarkable, helpful resource for reading the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur’an in relation to each other focused on central questions that arise in each. . . . The reader will learn a lot about Qur’anic and biblical texts and their contexts and will have to rethink some basic assumptions about his or her religious tradition, particularly pertaining to its relationship with the other religious traditions ‘of the book.’ This is just the kind of thought and conversation that we sorely need today in order to build constructive and peaceful relationships across our religious boundaries.”