Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of … - John Walford

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John Walford

Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ.

Art, Eye, Reality, Redemption, Seeing, Vision

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In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole creation to its proper purposes, to make straight what is crooked, and to redeem both humanity and the creation from the curse of sin, then herein can be found the possibility for a full and wholesome realization of human artistic activity.

Art, Crooked, Humanity, Redeem, Submission To God

Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.

Creativity, Fate, Ideas, Romantic, Tended

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Artist, Beauty, Dubious, Highly, Metaphor, System

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

Art, Cynicism, Overcoming, Problem, Problems, Relativism

Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.

Beauty, Christian, Imago, Mire, Order, Slime

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