RT Article
T1 Drawing in-church and drawing-in to joy
JF Practical theology
VO 13
IS 3
SP 290
OP 305
A1 Byrne, Libby
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1725883457
AB 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.
K1 Art and theology
K1 art making in worship
K1 drawing in church
K1 embodied liturgical practice
K1 joy in public worship
K1 practice-led
DO 10.1080/1756073X.2019.1678861