Genuine
art takes seriously the fact that the world is full of the glory of
God, and that it will be full "as the waters cover the sea," and at
present (Rom. 8) it is groaning in travail. ...Genuine art responds to
that triple awareness...and holds them together as the Psalms do, and
asks why and what and where are we. You can do that in music and you
can do that in painting, and our generation needs us to do that not
simply to decorate the gospel but to announce the gospel.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
NT Wright on Art and Mission
We have lived for too long with the
arts as the pretty bit around the edge, with the reality as the
non-artistic thing in the middle. But the world is charged with the
grandeur of God! Why should we not celebrate and rejoice in that?
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