Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation Gardner Thomas
Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation Gardner Thomas Art is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Four artists in particular--the…
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Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation Gardner Thomas
Art is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Four artists in particular--the poet Czeslaw Milosz, filmmaker Terrence Malick, novelist Marilynne Robinson, and lyric essayist Annie Dillard--actively wrestle with a world that reflects God's glory while remaining at times deeply and troublingly obscure.In Lyric Theology, Thomas Gardner unfolds the ways these four important contemporary figures, drawing on modes of thinking rooted in lyric poetry, explore what the world looks like when seen as created and received as a gift. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that creation with new meaning.
Lyric thinking, he argues, dramatizes a mind and spirit reaching toward a beauty and complexity that can never be fully grasped but yet can be lifted up in praise and wonder,