Tikkun Olam' -To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts

Tikkun Olam -To Mend the World is premised on the conviction that artists and theologians have things to learn from one another, things about the complex interrelationality of life and about a coherence of things given and sustained by God. The ten essays compiled in this volume seek to attend to the lives, burdens, and hopes that characterize human life in a world broken but unforgotten, in travail but moving towards the freedom promised by a faithful Creator. They reflect on whether the world-wounded as it is by war, by hatred, by exploitation, by neglect, by reason, and by human imagination itself-can be healed. Can there be repair? And can art and theology tell the truth of the world's woundedness and still speak of its hope?

Jason Goroncy (PhD, St Andrews) is Associate Professor of Theology in the University of Divinity, Australia, and has published widely in the areas of public theology, theology and the arts, and theological ethics. He is the author of Hallowed be Thy Name: The Sanctification of All in the Soteriology of P. T. Forsyth (T&T Clark, 2013), and P. T. Forsyth: Life and Thought (Wipf and Stock, forthcoming), and the contributing editor of Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History: Notes from the Pulpit Ministry of P. T. Forsyth (Pickwick, 2013), Tikkun Olam--To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts (Pickwick, 2014), Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology (Pickwick, 2022), and the T&T Clark Handbook of the Doctrine of Creation (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He also writes at jasongoroncy.com.