Experiencing Christian art
In this article, we argue that a secularist cannot experience Christian art in the same way that a Christian can. To defend this claim, we argue that Christian faith is best conceived as an engagement with God, such that coming to have faith is a transformative, second-person experience where a pers...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 431-439 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christian art
/ Knowledge
/ Christian
/ Unbeliever
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CE Christian art |
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Summary: | In this article, we argue that a secularist cannot experience Christian art in the same way that a Christian can. To defend this claim, we argue that Christian faith is best conceived as an engagement with God, such that coming to have faith is a transformative, second-person experience where a person comes to know what it is like to be loved by God and that Christian art is best conceived as iconic, such that it is an occasion for, and a mode of, experiencing God. Thus, for the Christian, but not for the secularist, experiencing Christian art consists in an experience of God himself. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412515000335 |