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Saturday 15 March 2008

Arts in Religious & Theological Studies

I've just received a complimentary copy of the current edition of ARTS journal which includes my review of Rowena Loverance's Christian Art (incidentally, it's interesting to discover where your blogs later end up - technorati search enables this; this blog was noted at Iconia, while my series on Maltese Sacred Art was picked up at Wired Malta).

The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (ARTS) is the journal of The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies published by the theology and arts program of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Edited by Wilson Yates and Kimberly Vrudny, the journal treats broadly the intersections between theology and the arts. I met Wilson Yates at last year's ACE International Conference (briefly reviewed in ARTS) and have recently come across him again in the pages of John Dillenberger's From Fallow Fields To Hallowed Halls which I've read since Dillenberger's death.

This edition of ARTS has an excellent article entitled 'Reimagining Religious Art' by Virginia Maksymowicz, a sculptor from Philadelphia, reflecting on responses to the Stations of the Cross she created for St Thomas Episcopal Church, Lancaster and responding to a quote from James Elkins which claims that "the word 'religion' is a toxin in serious talk about art."

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