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God calls humans to be creative. The human drive to represent
transcendent truths witnesses to the fact that we are destined to
be transfigured and to transfigure the world. It is worth asking,
then, what truthful representations, whether in art, spirituality,
or theology, teach us about the one who is our truth, the one who
made us and the one in whose image we are made. All Things
Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology is an experimental and
constructive aesthetic Christology sourced by close readings of a
wide array of artistic works, canonical and popular-including
poems, films, essays, novels, plays, short stories, sculptures,
icons, and paintings-as well as art criticism and passages from the
Christian Scriptures. From first to last, these readings engage in
conversation with the deep, broad wisdom of the Christian
theological tradition. The liturgical calendar guides the themes of
the book, beginning with Advent and Christmas; carrying through
Epiphany, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, and Ascension;
and ending with Pentecost and Ordinary Time. Chris Green brings
together these readings to create a mosaic-like impression of Jesus
as the one through whom God graces and gives nature to all things,
his life and death redeeming the whole creation, including human
creativity and artistic endeavor, and transfiguring it into the
full, free flourishing that God has purposed. This vision of Christ
holds promise for artists and theologians, as well as preachers and
teachers, revealing how our compulsions to create-and the meanings
with which we endow our creations-become a site of the Spirit's
presence, opening us to the goodness and wildness of God.
North America has rarely produced a theologian as creative and
productive as Robert W. Jenson. A truly ecumenical thinker, Jenson
consistently demonstrates the way that the church's confession of
the triune God of scripture restructures Christian thinking.
Jenson's work on the nature of theology has focused on the category
of "promise": a way with language that opens up new possibilities.
At the heart of Jenson's theology of the gospel is the conviction
that, in Christ, God discloses a word of pure promise to us,
enabling new patterns of life. Just as the gospel opens up new ways
of living, good theology unfolds into new interpretations and
articulations. Engaging Jenson's work across vital areas, this
volume lays out the contours and key contributions of Jenson's
thought for modern Christology, theological interpretation of
Scripture, the doctrine of the Trinity in light of the recent
Trinitarian revival, and ecumenical theological relations. This
volume gathers together essays by some of contemporary theology's
most capable thinkers, such as Oliver Crisp, Stephen Holmes, Joseph
Mangina, Peter Leithart, Telford Work, Eugene Rogers, R. Kendall
Soulen, and Peter Ochs, to examine the ways in which Jenson's own
theology functions as "promise," enabling further theological
visions and articulations.
The Spirit and the Screen engages contemporary films from the
perspective of pneumatology to give theologies of culture fruitful
new perspectives that begin with the Spirit rather than other
common theological contact points (Christology, anthropology,
theological ethics, creation, eschatology, etc.). This book
explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in film, as
well as literary devices that draw allusions to the Spirit. It
offers three main contributions: first, it explores how Christian
understandings of the person and work of the Spirit illuminate the
nature of film and film-making; second, it shows that there are in
fact “Spirit figures” in film (as distinct from but inseparable
from Christ-figures), even if sometimes they’re not intended as
such, “Spirit-led” characters, are moved to act
“prophetically,” against their inclinations and in excess of
their skill or knowledge and with eccentric, life-giving
creativity; third, it identifies subtle and explicit symbolizations
of the Spirit in pop culture, symbolizations that requires deep,
careful thinking about the Christian doctrine of the Spirit and
generate new horizons for cultural analysis. The contributors of
this book explore these issues, asking how Christian convictions
and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about
films and film-making.
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