Art, Imagination and Christian Hope: Patterns of Promise (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)

by Gavin Hopps

Trevor Hart (Editor)

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In hope, Christian faith reconfigures the shape of what is familiar in order to pattern the contours of God's promised future. In this process, the present is continuously re-shaped by ventures of hopeful and expectant living. In art, this same poetic interplay between past, present and future takes specific concrete forms, furnishing vital resources for sustaining an imaginative ecology of hope. This volume attends to the contributions that architecture, drama, literature, music and painting can make, as artists trace patterns of promise, resisting the finality of modernity's despairing visions and generating hopeful living in a present which, although marked by sin and death, is grasped imaginatively as already pregnant with future.
  • ISBN10 075466676X
  • ISBN13 9780754666769
  • Publish Date 19 December 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 206
  • Language English