The Arts and the Christian Imagination
Subtitle: essays on art, literature, and aesthetics
By: Clyde S. Kilby ; edited by William Dyrness and Keith Call
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Brewster, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781612618616
Notes: "Mount Tabor Books" - t.p.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : Remembering Clyde S. Kilby / William Dyrness; title: Eleven resolutions to guide life / Clyde S. Kilby; title: Section 1 : Christianity, the arts, and aesthetics.; title: Introduction / William Dyrness; title: The Christian and the arts; title: Christianity and aesthetics; title: Modern art's pursuit of form; title: Section 2 : The vocation of the artist.; title: Introduction / William Dyrness; title: The Christian and culture; title: In defense of beauty; title: Vision, belief, and individuality; title: Evangelicalism and human freedom; title: Section 3 : Faith and the role of the imagination.; title: Introduction / William Dyrness; title: A dialogue on belief; title: Knowledge vs. wisdom; title: The decline and fall of the Christian imagination; title: Evangelicals and the call of the imagination; title: A perfect state of society; title: Section 4 : Poetry, literature, and the imagination.; title: Introduction / William Dyrness; title: In defense of poetry; title: The world of poetry; title: The uses of fiction