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World View Resources: World View of Art & Culture

Instructions for finding world view resources. Includes a list of books, articles, journals and Web sites.

Biblical View on Art & Culture

Bibliography for a Biblical View on Art and Culture

Anderson, Jonathan A. and William A. Dyrness. Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. [261.57 An23m]

Brand, Hilary, Adrienne Chaplin. Art and Soul: Signpost for Christians in the Arts. 2nd ed. Carlisle, UK: Piquant, 2001. [261.57 B733a]

Chaplin, Adrienne Dengerink. “What’s the point?” Summer reading on the artsComment Magazine, 18 May 2007. 

Cosgrove, Mark P. Foundations of Christian Thought. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2006. [261 C82f]

Elwell, J. Sage. Crisis of Transcendence: A Theology of Digital Art and Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010.

Gardner, Thomas. Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2022.

Gire, Ken. The Work of His Hands: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Being Conformed to the Image of Christ. Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2002

Henderson, Roger Douglas and Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, eds. The Artistic Sphere: The Arts in Neo-Calvinist Perspective. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2024.

Munson, Paul Allen. Art and Music: A Student's Guide. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014. [261.57 M928a]

Myers, Kenneth A. All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes. Westchester: Crossway Books, 1989; eBook 2012. [261.1 M992a]

Romaine, James, G. M. Birtwistle, William A. Dyrnes, et.al. Art as Spiritual Perception: Essays in Honor of E. John Walford. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012 [701.1 Ar75r]

Rookmaaker, H.R. Modern Art and the Death of a Culture. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1970; eBook 2016. [709 R673m]

Ryken, Leland. The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts. Wheaton, IL: H. Shaw Publishers, 1989. [261.57 R982L]

Ryken, Philip G. Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing Company, 2006. [261.57 R982a]

Schaeffer, Francis A. Art and the Bible. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2006. [246.Sch13ar]

Seerveld, Calvin. "How Should Christians be Stewards of Art? A Response to Nathan Jacobs". Journal of Markets & Morality 12, no.2 (Fall 2009): 377-385.

Seerveld, Calvin. "How Should Christians Be Stewards of Art? A Surresponse to Nathan Jacobs". Journal of Markets & Morality 12, no 2 (Fall 2009), p393-398.

Seerveld, Calvin G. "Relating Christianity to the Arts". Christianity Today 24, no 019 (Nov. 7, 1980), p 48.

Sokolove, Deborah. Sanctifying Art: Inviting Conversation Between Artists, Theologians, and the Church. La Vergne: Cascade Books, 2013

Solomon, Jerry. Arts, Entertainment and Christian Values: Probing the Headlines that Impact Your Family. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 2000. [261.52Ar79s]

Taylor, W. David O. Contemporary Art and the Church: A Conversation Between Two Worlds. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, Press, 2017. [700.102 C767t]

Weichbrodt, Elissa Yukiko. Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. [261.57 W425r]

Wilson, John. One of the Richest Gifts: An Introductory Study of the Arts form a Christian Worldview. Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1981. [246 W694o]

 

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