"Tikkun olam"--to mend the world
Subtitle: a confluence of theology and the arts
By: edited by Jason Goroncy ; foreword by Alfonse Borysewicz
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781610979221
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Christianity and the arts; Art and religion; Spirituality in art; Spiritual healing
Description: Tikkun Olam--To Mend the World is premised on the conviction that artists and theologians have things to learn from one another, things about the complex interrelationality of life and about a coherence of things given and sustained by God. The ten essays compiled in this volume seek to attend to the lives, burdens, and hopes that characterize human life in a world broken but unforgotten, in travail but moving towards the freedom promised by a faithful Creator. They reflect on whether the world--wounded as it is by war, by hatred, by exploitation, by neglect, by reason, and by human imagination itself--can be healed. Can there be repair? And can art and theology tell the truth of the world's woundedness and still speak of its hope?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Prophesy to these dry bones": the artist's role in healing the earth  -- William Dyrness; title: Cosmos, kenosis, and creativity  -- Trevor Hart; title: Re-forming beauty: can theological sense accommodate aesthetic sensibility?  -- Carolyn Kelly; title: Questioning the extravagance of beauty in a world of poverty  -- Jonathan Ryan; title: Living close to the wound  -- Libby Byrne; title: The Sudden imperative and Not the male gaze: reconciliatory relocations in the art practice of Allie Eagle  -- Joanna Osborne and Allie Eagle; title: Building from the rubble: architecture, memory, and hope  -- Murray Rae; title: The interesting case of Heaney, the critic, and the Incarnation  -- John Dennison; title: New media art practice: a challenge and resource for multimedia worship  -- Julanne Clarke-Morris; title: Silence, song, and the sounding-together of creation -- Steven Guthrie.