Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts) - Softcover

Hopps, Gavin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138250686 ISBN 13: 9781138250680

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

In hope, Christian faith reconfigures the shape of what is familiar in order to pattern the contours of God's promised future. In this process, the present is continuously re-shaped by ventures of hopeful and expectant living. In art, this same poetic interplay between past, present and future takes specific concrete forms, furnishing vital resources for sustaining an imaginative ecology of hope. This volume attends to the contributions that architecture, drama, literature, music and painting can make, as artists trace patterns of promise, resisting the finality of modernity's despairing visions and generating hopeful living in a present which, although marked by sin and death, is grasped imaginatively as already pregnant with future.

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About the Author

Trevor Hart is Professor of Divinity and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the University of St Andrews. He has authored and edited several books including a collection (Faithful Performances, with Steven Guthrie) for Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts, a series for which he is an editor. Gavin Hopps is Lecturer in Literature and Theology and Associate Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the University of St Andrews. He is author of Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (Continuum, 2009) and co-edited the collection Romanticism and Religion (with Jane Stabler, Ashgate 2006). Jeremy Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke University, Durham, NC. He has authored and edited several books and is an editor for the series Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts.

Review

'This book is a very thought-provoking collection of essays. Each one in its own way gives an answer to the Nietzschean critique of Christianity as a 'Platonism for the masses' by showing how the Christian notion of hope in the reality of eternity does not have to take on the other-worldly form detached from the life 'here-and-now'.' Themelios '...[provides] a welcome emphasis on music as well as literature. The musical score excerpts are beautifully reproduced...' Art and Christianity

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138250686
• ISBN 13: 9781138250680
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Hart Trevor