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Heidi J. Hornik
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Baylor University Press
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October 2018
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October 2018
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Contemporary Christians interact with art very differently than Christians of centuries past. Christian art was never intended for mere enjoyment, but was used to express the most important features of Christian faith and to suggest models for Christian practices. In The Art of Christian Reflection, art historian Heidi Hornik reconnects art to ethics, beauty to behavior, and form to function in classical artwork.
Over eighty different pieces of art--paintings, sculptures, and architecture--are the subject of Hornik's careful analysis and commentary, which highlights the ethical implications inherent to each work. Specifically, Hornik explores how art may foster Christian virtues like forgiveness, patience, and generosity. Hornik also discusses art's influence on moral issues like racism, prisons, violence, poverty, and environmentalism as well as historic Christian praxes like prayer, work, Bible study, and worship.
The Art of Christian Reflection paints the church's art as not only a courageous witness to the truth and reality of the gospel, but as an act of discipleship. It reveals the ethics of works not associated with the church but of value to contemporary Christians. Art can lead the faithful who reflect on it to become not only "hearers" and "seers" of the Word--but "doers" as well.
Author
Heidi J. Hornik
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Published
October 2018
Weight
624g
Dimensions
148 x 224 x 26 mm
ISBN
9781481304269
ISBN-10
1481304267
Eden Code
4721287
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Author/Creator: Heidi J. Hornik
ISBN: 9781481304269
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Release Date: October 2018
Weight: 624g
Dimensions: 148 x 224 x 26 mm
Eden Code: 4721287