Art and the Experience of the Divine - Anne Searle Bent

Descriere Art and the Experience of the Divine - Anne Searle Bent

\nHow do people find faith? For centuries the focus of the church has been on providing arguments that might persuade a person rationally that faith is plausible. This book invites people to find faith through experience. By taking a great work of art, the reader is invited to meditate and pray through that art to God. Faith is primarily an experience of the heart, not an argument that appeals to the head. \n \nThe book opens with a framing case for the centrality of the visual arts as a vehicle to experience the divine. Engaging with the literature, a distinctive case is made for a spiritual theory of art, according to which art makes spiritual reality present to the seeker. \n \nThen there are twenty-two devotional reflections on art that show how properly reading a painting or a drawing can open up fresh ways of thinking about the divine that are compelling and powerful. Thus, we are guided towards seeing truly great art as a focus for prayer and meditation. \n

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Wipf & Stock Publishers

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ENSTK

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9781666775723

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1

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