Communion, Covenant, and Creativity

Brian Haymes, Richard L Kidd

ISBN 10: 1532668635 / ISBN 13: 9781532668630

Editore: Wipf and Stock Publishers, US, 2020

Codice articolo LU-9781532668630

Riassunto:

This book is a follow-up to a previous volume by the same three authors, Baptists and the Communion of Saints: A Theology of Covenanted Disciples, though it does not require familiarity with the first study. The present book offers new perspectives on belief in the “communion of saints” by interpreting it through the idea of “covenant,” with its two dimensions of relations with God and with each other. Giving attention to the creative arts of painting, music, poetry, and story writing, the authors explore “indications” of a hidden “communion of saints” through embodiment, memory, and connectivity. Included are studies of the work of visual artists Paul Nash and Mark Rothko; musicians John Tavener, Elgar, and Brahms; and writers Thomas Hardy, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce. Theological reflection on these hints of communion offers a vision of an ongoing communion of prayer with the saints, alive and dead, which does not depend on a dualistic idea of a disembodied soul existing after death but which affirms the Christian tradition of the resurrection of the body. Communion, covenant, and creativity are thus linked to develop a Christian aesthetics based on a mutual indwelling between the triune God and the world.

Informazioni sull?autore: Paul S. Fiddes is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford and Principal Emeritus of Regent's Park College, Oxford. Brian Haymes was formerly Principal of Bristol Baptist College. Richard L. Kidd was formerly Principal of Northern Baptist College, Manchester.

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Titolo: Communion, Covenant, and Creativity
Casa editrice: Wipf and Stock Publishers, US
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New