List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword by Mako Fujimara Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Editors'' Introduction - Sketching the contours of the contemporary theology-arts conversation Part I: Different Approaches to the Theology-Arts Conversation 1. Theologies of Art - Trevor Hart (St Andrews Scottish Episcopal Church, UK) 2. Theology Through the Arts - Jeremy Begbie (Duke Divinity School, USA) 3. Art as Theology - David Brown (Fellow of British Academy, UK) 4. The Correlation of Theology and Art - Wessel Stoker (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands) 5. Theopoetics of the Broken Form - Heather Walton (Glasgow University, UK) Part II: Form and Mutual Formation of Theology and the Arts Theology and Artistic Forms 6. A soul beautifully disposed'' Embodied participation and the re-forming work of music - Jeffery Ames (Belmont University, USA) and Steven R. Guthrie (Belmont University, USA) 7.

''In the beginning was.'' How poetry breaks open the theological Word - Rachel Mann (Manchester Met University & Sarum College, UK) 8. Why Lyric? A Theological Perspective - Elizabeth S. Dodd (Sarum College, UK) 9. The Novel - Alison Milbank (University of Nottingham, UK) 10. Drama, theatre and theology - Shannon Craigo-Snell (Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA) and Todd E. Johnson (Senior Pastor of First Covenant Church, USA) 11. Dancing as creatures do - Ellen F.

Davis (Duke Divinity School, USA), Elisa Schroth (Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet, USA) and Morley van Yperen (Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet) 12. Visual art as practical theology: learning from Theaster Gates - William Dyrness (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) and Maria Fee (Independent Theologian and Artist, USA) 13. How film can foster theological insight - Robert Johnston (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) 14. The theological importance of play: engaging with popular culture - Clive Marsh (Queen''s Foundation, UK) and Adam Sanders ( Birmingham District of the Methodist Church, UK) 15. Theology in location: architecture as a medium of theological exploration - Murray Rae (University of Otago, New Zealand, New Zealand) Art and Theological Traditions 16. A Thomistic perspective on the conversation between theology and the arts - Lawrence Feingold (Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, USA) 17. The theophanic image: theology and art in the Orthodox icon - C.A.

Tsakiridou (La Salle University, USA) 18. Theology, the arts and the Reformed tradition - Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (King''s College, London) and Peter S. Smith (Independent Artist, UK) 19. Re-engaged imagination: Evangelicals in theology and the arts - Taylor Worley (Wheaton College, USA) 20. Give me that old-time religion! Towards a Black Pentecostal aesthetics - Dulcie Dixon McKenzie (The Queen''s Foundation, UK) Part III: Prevalent Themes in the Theology-Arts Conversation Theological performance 21. Trinity, incarnation and the creative act - Katherine Sonderegger (Virginia Theological Seminary, USA) and Margaret Adams Parker (Independent Artist, USA) 22. Art, creation and grace - Thomas Gardner (Virginia Tech, USA) 23. Beauty and revelation: this great absence.

A conversation between theology and sculpture - Carol Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) and Charles Hewlings (Independent Artist, UK) 24. ''My name is Legion!'' Biblical exegesis, embodiment and the visual arts - Christine E. Joynes (University of Oxford, UK) 25. ''Monotonous rhythm on the heart of God?'' Drumming, theological aesthetics and Christianity in the Caribbean - Anna Kasafi Perkins (St Michael''s Theological College, Jamaica) and Carlton Turner (The Queen''s Foundation, UK) 26. Christianity and tragedy - Richard Harries (King''s College London, UK) 27. Sin and redemption: an exploration of the musical fragment - Férdia J. Stone-Davis (Margaret Beaufort Institute, UK) 28. Imagining the end: eschatology in art and literature - Judith Wolfe (University of St Andrews, UK) 29.

Liturgy and the arts - W. David O. Taylor (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA) 30. Sacrament, the arts and the performance of the Christian theological imagination - R. David Nelson (Baylor University Press, USA) 31. Flagships of the imagination, hope and freedom: cathedrals and visual art - Julie Gittoes (Area Dean of Barnet, UK) Artistic performance 32. Creativity, freedom and the artist''s vocation - George Corbett (University of St Andrews, UK) 33. Imagination as a means of freedom and healing - Carlene J.

Brown (Seattle Pacific University, USA) and Kerry Dearborn (Seattle Pacific University) 34. Space and time through the built environment - Timothy J. Gorringe (University of Exeter, UK) 35. The primacy of the gendered body: praxis, method and meaning-making in liberation theology and choreographic research - Christopher-Rasheem McMillan (The University of Iowa, USA) 36. Art, theology, race - Brian Bantum (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA) 37. Political theology and the arts - Richard Bourne (York St John University, UK) 38. Postscript: Theology~Art seeking (re)creative understanding: on seeing and knowing in the context of visual art research - Stephen M. Garrett (Rivendell Institute at Yale University / Global Scholars, USA) Index.