Description: "This book aims to show how the Christian doctrine of Pneumatology can both illuminate and be illuminated by an engagement with the arts. Drawing on specific examples from a wide range of media-music, poetry, visual art, film, and landscape architecture-each chapter seeks to deepen our understanding of a particular name for the Holy Spirit as it relates to the Spirit's distinctive work in the world. Each chapter likewise shows how a concerted engagement with a biblically centered theology of the Holy Spirit can enrich our understanding of art's distinctive capacity to help us to inhabit our world more faithfully and to engage it more fruitfully"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description:
Wesley Vander Lugt (PhD, University of St Andrews) is adjunct professor of theology and acting director of the Leighton Ford Initiative for Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte. His publications include Living Theodrama: Reimagining Theological Ethics and Beauty Is Oxygen: Finding a Faith That Breathes.
Review Quotes:
"There are books about the Spirit. And then there are books animated by the Spirit. In Naming the Spirit, W. David O. Taylor and Daniel Train have brought together a collection of authors and artists who are not simply talking about the third person of the Trinity but are creating theological works that are drenched in the presence and activity of the rûaḥ ʾĕlōhîm--the life-giving breath of God. I cannot recommend it highly enough."
Kutter Callaway, associate dean of the Center for Advanced Theological Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of Scoring Transcendence