Drawing in-church and drawing-in to joy
This paper explores what can be learned about the possibilities for joy when the private practice of drawing is located in public experience of Sunday worship. A case study identifies distinct phases of making, being with and seeing art, all integral to the process of aesthetic theological inquiry,...
| Published in: | Practical theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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| In: |
Practical theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture CE Christian art KBS Australia; Oceania |
| Further subjects: | B
art making in worship
B Art and theology B joy in public worship B drawing in church B embodied liturgical practice B practice-led |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | This paper explores what can be learned about the possibilities for joy when the private practice of drawing is located in public experience of Sunday worship. A case study identifies distinct phases of making, being with and seeing art, all integral to the process of aesthetic theological inquiry, as mechanisms for drawing in both artist and viewer to participate in creative conversation. In the immanence of honesty, the experience of making and seeing art in church offers an experience of joy characterised by an embodied experience of ‘emotional attunement between the self and the world’ (Volf 2015). Whilst the experience of drawing in-church extends our capacity to see God at work when it happens, the emerging work of art is drawing-in (the) church, inviting us to participate in a process of honest reflection that transforms the way we understand what it means to belong in a life of faith. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2019.1678861 |