Communion, Covenant, and Creativity

Communion, Covenant, and Creativity

by Brian HaymesRichard L. Kidd and Paul S. Fiddes
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/03/2020

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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.

ISBN:
9781532668654
9781532668654
Category:
Christianity
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-03-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers

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