Liturgy as a Way of Life – Embodying the Arts in Christian Worship

Bruce Ellis Benson, James Smith (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2013
Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-0-8010-3135-9 (ISBN)

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A distinguished philosopher examines the nature of liturgy and explores God's call to Christians to improvise as living works of art.

How do the arts inform and cultivate our service to God? In this addition to an award-winning series, distinguished philosopher Bruce Ellis Benson rethinks what it means to be artistic. Rather than viewing art as practiced by the few, he recovers the ancient Christian idea of presenting ourselves to God as works of art, reenvisioning art as the very core of our being: God calls us to improvise as living works of art. Benson also examines the nature of liturgy and connects art and liturgy in a new way. This book will appeal to philosophy, worship/liturgy, art, music, and theology students as well as readers interested in engaging issues of worship and aesthetics in a postmodern context, including Christian artists and worship leaders.

Bruce Ellis Benson (PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is professor of philosophy at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. His areas of expertise include contemporary French thought and philosophy of art. He is the author of Graven Ideologies, The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue, and Pious Nietzsche, and the coeditor of several books, including Evangelicals and Empire.

Contents
Introduction: The Art of Living
1. The Call and the Response
2. Deconstructing the Discourse of Art
3. Improvising Like Jazz
4. On Not Being an Artistic Whore
5. Becoming Living Works of Art
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2013
Verlagsort	Ada, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 216 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
ISBN-10	0-8010-3135-4 / 0801031354
ISBN-13	978-0-8010-3135-9 / 9780801031359
Zustand	Neuware