Art and Soul : Signposts for Christians in the Arts - Brand, Hilary; Chaplin, Adrienne (Carlisle, UK : Piquant Editions ; Downers Grove, Ill. : IPV Academic, 2007)
Foreword / Calvin Seerveld -- Foreword / Graham Cray -- Pt. 1. Deconstructed, Disillusioned and Distrusted: Conflicting influences on the Christian artist -- 1. Art in a post-modern age -- 2. Art and the quest for the spiritual -- 3. Art and a suspicious church -- Pt. 2. Garden, Serpent and Sacrifice: Returning to primary sources -- 4. Art and the Bible -- 5. Art and a playful God -- 6. Art and a fallen world -- 7. Art and the possibility of redemption -- Pt. 3. Worldview, Worship and the Work of Art: Applying the Bible to some basic art issues -- 8. Art and an integrated worldview -- 9. Art as a valid Christian activity -- 10. Art as a means of worship -- 11. Art in its rightful place -- Pt. 4. Seeing, Weighing and Interpreting: Some attempts at definition and pointers for assessment -- 12. Art and a way of seeing -- 13. Art and blurred boundaries -- 14. Art and how it works -- 15. Art and interpretation -- Pt. 5. Rooted, Respectful and Real: Some ways forward for Christians in the arts -- 16. Art and new technology -- 17. Art as honest labour -- 18. Art as a proper job -- 19. Art as a twenty-first century calling.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Christianity and the arts; Evangelicalism