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Faith and Virtue (Hardcover)
David Baily Harned; Foreword by James McCullough
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David Baily Harned; Afterword by David Hein
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Faith and Virtue (Paperback)
David Baily Harned; Foreword by James McCullough
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About the Contributor(s): David Baily Harned (PhD, Yale Graduate
School) is a retired professor of religious studies who remains
active as a classroom teacher and a scholarly writer. He taught at
Williams, Smith, and Allegheny Colleges, and served a five-year
term as president at Allegheny College. His longer terms of service
were seven years as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Louisiana
State University and ten years as the founding chairman of the
Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.
Elaine H. Harned is David's wife.
Description: This treatise on the importance of what the artist
does--especially the man of letters--examines recent Christian
appraisals of the creative enterprise and argues that Protestant
interpretations of culture today are marred by their departure from
Biblical faith in God as Creator. Today, theologians find
themselves writing more and more about painting, music, poetry,
drama, and the novel. Many are convinced that no definition of man
or interpretation of his condition is adequate if it ignores man as
a creator. Some Christian writers have been content to explore the
possibilities of new dialogue between religion and the arts. Others
have sought to develop a theology of art--a systematic
interpretation of what artists are doing, why they are doing it,
and what it means in the context of the Christian story about
nature, man, and God. In doing so, they have used either the image
of creation, the cross, or consummation as their point of departure
for an interpretation of the artist's venture. Dr. Harned examines
the merits and problems involved in the use of each image for the
appraisal of the human enterprise and contends that consummation
must use the doctrine of God as Creator in order to be useful to
contemporary Christianity. He emphasizes the need for Protestantism
to recover the idea of ""the natural"" and defines it in a way
congruent with the theology of the Reformers. Here are insightful
answers for all who want to understand the importance of the arts,
why theologians are concerned with literature and painting, and how
that concern has been expressed.
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