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2. Visual Arts and Christian Theology

   Christianity is sometimes described as a ‘religion of the book’, but visual art has long been used by Christians alongside and in addition to words, to express their experiences of and reflections on God. Its particular significance within some Christian contexts has been justified on chris...

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   Chloë Reddaway and Ben Quash

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

3. Film and Christian Theology

   This article puts forward a robust historically-informed analysis of the current state of Christian theology and film discourse, establishing the necessary conditions not only for making sense of how the field has developed over time but also for imagining where it might go in the future. I...

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   Robert K. Johnston and Kutter Callaway

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

4. The Theology of the Icon

   The Christian icon – from eikon, the Greek word for ‘image’ – has been part of liturgical worship from the early centuries of the Christian era, and sometimes also a subject of theological debate. On the one hand, icons have been described by iconodules or iconophiles (those defending icons...

   ​Author

   Aidan Hart

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Spiritual life and practices

5. Performing Arts and Embodiment in Christian Theology

   Across the geographical breadth and temporal depth of Christianity, theology and the performing arts have been natural partners, suspect allies, committed enemies, and passionate friends. Performing arts are bodily actions in time and space. Christian worship becomes the embodied actions of...

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   Todd E. Johnson and Shannon Craigo-Snell

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

6. Architecture and Christian Theology

   There is an obvious convergence, in the spaces used for Christian worship, between the practice of architecture and the concerns of Christian theology. Even the most utilitarian of spaces – an old warehouse, a community hall, a converted office building – when adapted for use in Christian w...

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   Murray Rae

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

7. European Literature and Christian Theology (1700–1900)

   This entry considers major developments in European literature, from the early Enlightenment to the end of the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the relation between literary production and Christian theological inquiry in a rapidly changing cultural and political environment.

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   Thomas Pfau

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

8. Music and Orthodox Theology

   The expression of theology by means of music in the Orthodox Church is something that has been discussed and regulated since the Patristic era, which itself takes as its basis the Psalms and the Gospels. The way in which this expression has been achieved practically, however, has varied consi...

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   Ivan Moody

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Spiritual life and practices

9. European Literature and Christian Theology (1900–present)

   This entry considers the relation between literature and Christian theology in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Europe, with attention principally given to those writers whose oeuvre takes up questions central to theology (in particular soteriology, eschatology, ecclesiology, creat...

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   Thomas Pfau

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

10. Music in the Western Theological Tradition

    This entry examines the ways in which Christian theology has shaped and elucidated the activities of music-making and music-hearing, and in turn how musical practices have been appropriated to advance the enterprise of theology. Attention is focused primarily (though not exclusively) on textl...

    ​Author

    Jeremy Begbie

    ​Faith tradition

    Christianity

    ​Topics

    Society and culture

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