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| Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts
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Author: Philip Graham Ryken
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Release Date: 2006-05-02
ISBN-10: 1596380071
ISBN-13: 9781596380073
List Price: $5.99
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A G-d's Eye View of the Arts
| Customer Rating: | Dr. Philip G. Ryken [...]
offers a profoundly simple and highly practicle approach to an ever increasing need for good christian arts in cafe, stage, gallery, musuem, church, and/or home. In an ever changing world where lines all blur from art, medicine, science, new media, and technology dare we consider a view from the unchanging great "I AM" as central to our being and Art itself?
The need and desire to create art has always existed in man regardless of age, faith, creed, or sex and regardless of utility/gestalt, sacred/profane, and/or symbolic/representational intent.
This book traces the very steps back to the first and greatest Artist: God. And it recalls the account of the first divine calling for man to Create art, not for the sake of art but as the duty to G-d and his fellow man.
Those who are chosen for lives dedicated to the Arts in all its forms will be kindly instructed and soundly inspired by the contents of "Art for God's Sake". This book offers a G-d's eye view of the arts and its significance to the artist, the culture, and G-d Himself.
"Art for God's Sake" is a delightful and insightful read that will illuminate your mind like a jewel, making undim and vivid a brilliant new approach to the arts. Discover what really lies in the eye of the most high beholder. Will you answer the challenge/call to reclaim the arts and do all things in His name and for His Glory? |
Loved this book ...
| Customer Rating: | This book prompted me to sign up for a painting class in my area. It challenged me to stop wasting my gift; God gave it to me and it's my responsibility to cultivate it.
Dr. Ryken does a wonderful job pointing out the importance of the arts and the role the arts should play in our society and the Christian community. He may push some buttons for those who see the arts only as an avenue for ministry -- thus the subtitle, "A Call to RECOVER the Arts".
RECOVERY seems to have as its foundation DISCOVERY which will require Christians to take the time to learn about the arts and do some hard thinking about the role they should play in the Church and a believer's everyday life of worship of a God who remains the consummate artist. |
Art for God's Sake
| Customer Rating:  | | This was a short essay on the topic, not much to it, a little bit of repeat for me from reading The Creative Call. |
Art, for God's Sake
| Customer Rating: | | Well written support for my purpose - visual arts as expression of love of God's creation. |
Reabable and worthy
| Customer Rating: | | Five stars for this brief discussion of art from a Christian perspective. Ryken, minister at Tenth Presbyterian Philadelphia, interacts with the abilities of Bezalel and Oholiab, artisans of the tabernacle, to develop his topic. His discussion is very brief (less than 58 pages) but pointed. Both art and artist are viewed in relationship to God's greater person and glory. The author also deals with different kinds of art and the question of "Christian art". Writing from a reformed perspective, Ryken looks for the transformation of culture and speaks in light of the postmodern generation. The book is really too brief but will be especially good for those on the outside who desire a greater glimpse. |
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