Reformed Theology and Visual Culture

Reformed Theology and Visual Culture
Author: William A. Dyrness
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2004-06-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521540739

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William Dyrness examines how particular theological themes of Reformed Protestants impacted on their surrounding visual culture.

Visual Faith

Visual Faith
Author: William A. Dyrness
Publsiher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780801022975

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An intriguing, substantive look into the relationship between the church and the world of art.

What is Protestant Art

What is Protestant Art
Author: Andrew T. Coates
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789004375390

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What is Protestant Art? explores the history of Protestant images from the Reformation to the present. The book analyses historical images such as prints, paintings, illustrations, and maps, as evidence of changing Protestant attitudes and visual practices.

Protestants and Pictures

Protestants and Pictures
Author: David Morgan
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1999-08-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195351487

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In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by believers, the uses to which they were put, and what their relation was to technological innovations, commerce, and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.

Modern Art and the Life of a Culture

Modern Art and the Life of a Culture
Author: Jonathan A. Anderson,William A. Dyrness
Publsiher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780830851355

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In 1970, Hans Rookmaaker published Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, a groundbreaking work that considered the role of the Christian artist in society. This volume responds to his work by bringing together a practicing artist and a theologian who argue that modernist art is underwritten by deeply religious concerns.

The Arts as Witness in Multifaith Contexts

The Arts as Witness in Multifaith Contexts
Author: Roberta R. King,William A. Dyrness
Publsiher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830851065

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In search of holistic Christian witness, we must cultivate new approaches for integrating the arts into mission praxis. Written by missiologists, art critics, ethnodoxologists, and theologians from around the world, these essays present historical and contemporary case studies while calling Christians to understand the power of art for expressing cultural and religious identity, opening spaces for transformative encounters, and resisting injustice.

The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe

The Origins of Protestant Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe
Author: William A. Dyrness
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781108493352

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The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesthetic perception that occurred during the Renaissance and Reformation. In this book, William A. Dyrness examines intellectual developments in late Medieval Europe, which turned attention away from a narrow range liturgical art and practices and towards a celebration of God's presence in creation and in history. Though threatened by the human tendency to self-assertion, he shows how a new focus on God's creative and recreative action in the world gave time and history a new seriousness, and engendered a broad spectrum of aesthetic potential. Focusing in particular on the writings of Luther and Calvin, Dyrness demonstrates how the reformers' conceptual and theological frameworks pertaining to the role of the arts influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Themes in Old Testament Theology

Themes in Old Testament Theology
Author: William A. Dyrness
Publsiher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830877479

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Studying the New Testament without a background in the Old is like listening to only the last movement of a great symphony. Unless we begin at the beginning, we miss the sense of developing themes and their subtle variations. To fully appreciate the music of the Bible, we need to listen to its early movements. William Dyrness helps us by providing a set of program notes to important Old Testament themes: the self-revelation of God, the nature of God, creation and providence, man and woman, sin, covenant, law, worship, piety, ethics, wisdom, the Spirit of God, prophecy and the hope of Israel. By attuning our ears to these themes, Dyrness sets us on a course of enriching study and increased understanding.