Arts as Theology Webinars
Why is art important for Christian faith and theology? Does art simply illustrate issues of faith or is there
- 20.11.2024
Our times are charged or even catastrophic politically, culturally and ecologically. Yet we strive for creative ways of meaningful living and acting. As the neutrality of faith and even its relevance is challenged, the critical and creative engagement is necessary. Arts as theology sets to create a platform to explore how human creative endeavours and faith are necessary to one another and interrelate. This platform embraces the arts as constitutive to the theology and not merely illustrative, decorative or set on primarily passing information. It will encourage to explore and make visible the intimate links and interconnections between human persons, cosmos and triune God. It will be sensitive to the reality that God encounters the creation, us as embodied creatures, and draws into the divine life not only through ideas, but also through acts and events in our times and places. Embracing performative and participatory aspects, Arts as Theology will explore how one acquires one’s personal and communal voice, vocation and agency from groans to songs, signs and artistic acts.