Arts ministry
Subtitle: nurturing the creative life of God's people
By: Michael J. Bauer
Series: The Calvin Institute of Christian worship liturgical studies series; Calvin Institute of Christian Worship liturgical studies series
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780802869289
Subjects: Christianity and the arts; Church work
Description: First United Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia, gives concerts to raise money for local service organizations. Trinity Lutheran Church in Mission, Kansas, has been sponsoring a religious art show for more than twenty-five years. Fellowship Lutheran Church runs a Christian arts camp for young people every summer. These are just three of the eighteen case studies of practicing arts ministries in this book, in which Michael Bauer encourages the nurture and support of all the creative gifts of God's people. Bauer lays a solid foundation for arts ministry, grounding it in the historic Christian tradition and urging churches to expand their engagement with the creative arts -- "to live and worship in full color," as he puts it. A concluding chapter clearly lays out how to develop an arts ministry, helping readers to take these ideas from theory to practice, to embrace and celebrate the continuing creative activity of God in the church.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-327).
Table of contents: title: An introduction to arts ministry; title: Skepticism about arts ministry; title: Arts ministry and God; title: Arts ministry and human formation; title: Arts ministry and the world; title: Arts ministry and human creativity; title: Arts ministry and worship; title: Toward a theology of arts ministry; title: The practice of arts ministry.