Today, I want to highlight another theology book (pub. 4th December 2013). This time one edited by Jason Goroncy, a friend teaching out of Dunedin, on my home island.
While I’ve yet to read the book, I’ve been looking forward to its publication as I had the privilege of attending the conference from which the papers (largely) that make up this collection were delivered. It was a really special time, and I’m delighted both to see the papers I particularly valued in a published format, but also to seeing them reach a wider audience. The title of the book was the title of the conference, and the papers focus on the confluence between the arts and theology. I might get a chance to review it in due course, albeit it won’t be a critical review.
The conference also featured a special screening of the outstanding NZ movie The Insatiable Moon that I understand you can find on iTunes. Watch the film and read the book for a multisensory experience!
The book – 'Tikkun Olam' —To Mend the World: A Confluence of Theology and the Arts is described in this way:
"Tikkun Olam"—To Mend the World is premised on the conviction that artists and theologians have things to learn from one another, things about the complex interrelationality of life and about a coherence of things given and sustained by God. The ten essays compiled in this volume seek to attend to the lives, burdens, and hopes that characterize human life in a world broken but unforgotten, in travail but moving towards the freedom promised by a faithful Creator. They reflect on whether the world—wounded as it is by war, by hatred, by exploitation, by neglect, by reason, and by human imagination itself—can be healed. Can there be repair? And can art and theology tell the truth of the world's woundedness and still speak of its hope?”
Jason highlights the “Contents” of the book here. He includes a brief section of the Introduction. My notes from the 2011 conference can be found here, here, here, and here.
Looks great -- and reminds me much of the direction my book goes in the last chapters. You'll see the Kickstart campaign on my blog ;)
Posted by: len hjalmarson | Saturday, 01 February 2014 at 09:01 AM