BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE ARTS
** denotes works that have been especially helpful to me...
*** denotes must reads IMHO (in my humble opinion). These should be available
through your local library through interlibrary loan if out of print.
Adams, Douglas, and Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane, ed. Art as Religious Studies.
New York; Crossroad,1987.
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane, ed. Art, Creativity and the Sacred. New York;
Crossroad, 1989.
Attwater, Donald, ed. Modern Christian Revolutionaries. N.Y.; Devin-Adair
Co. 1947.
Bailey, Albert Edward. The Gospel in Art. Boston, Pilgrim Press, 1946. (a
classic, now very dated)
-------------------. The Arts and Religion. New York, Macmillan, 1944.
Bainton, Roland H. Behold the Christ. New York, Harper and Row, 1974.
**Bernard, Bruce. The Bible and It's Painters. New York; Macmillan, 1983.
Blom, Dorothea. Encounters With Art. Pendle Hill Publications #128, 1963.
----------------------. The Prophetic Element in Modern Art. Pendle Hill
Publications #160 Sept. 1966
----------------------- Art Responds to the Bible. Pendle Hill Publications
#197, 1974
------------------------Art, Imagery and the Mythic Process. Pendle Hill
Publications #215- 1977.
--------------------------. Art and the Changing World.Pendle Hill Publications
#183 , 1972.
Brown, Colin. Philosophy and the Christian Faith. Downer's Grove, Intervarsity
Press, 1968
Brown, Frank Burch. Religious Aesthetics. Princeton; Princeton Univ. Press,
1989.
**Buechner, Frederick. The Faces of Jesus. New York; Harper and Row, 1989.
Butler, John F. The Holiness of Beauty. London; Epworth Press, 1961.
Cope, Gilbert, ed. Christianity and the Visual Arts. London; Faith Press
Ltd.
1964.
**Davies, Horton and Davies, Hugh. Sacred Art in A Secular Century.
Collegeville; Liturgical Press, 1978.
**Dean, Tim, and Porter, David, eds. Art In Question. London; Marshall
Pickering, 1987.
Dearmer, Percy. Art and Religion. Rochester; Stanhope Press Ltd. (Student
Christian Movement Publications ), 1924.
Dillenberger, Jane. The Hand and the Spirit. Berkeley; University Art Museum,
1972.
---------------------. Image and Spirit in Sacred and Secular Art. New York;
Crossroad, 1990.
---------------------. Secular Art with Sacred Themes. Nashville; Abingdon,1969.
---------------------. Style and Content in Christian Art. New York; Crossroad,
1988.
Dillenberger, John. A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities. New York; Crossroad,
1986.
-------------------. The Visual Arts and Christianity in America. New York;
Crossroad, 1989
Dixon, John W., Jr. Art and Communication. Nashville; Board of Education
of the Methodist Church, 1957
--------------------. Nature and Grace in Art. Chapel Hill; UNC Press, 1964.
Eliot, T. S. Christianity and Culture. New York; Harcourt, Brace, and
Janovitch, 1940.
Eversole, Finley, ed. Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts. Nashville;
Abingdon, 1957.
Forbes, Cheryl. Imagination- Embracing a Theology of Wonder. Portland;
Multnomah,1986.
**Gaebelein, Frank E. The Christian, the Arts, and Truth. Portland; Multnomah
Press,1985.
**Gablik, Suzi. Has Modernism Failed? New York ; Thames and Hudson; 1984.
Gardner, Percy. The Principles of Christian Art. London; John Murray, 1929
Getlein, Frank. Christianity in Modern Art. Milwaukee; Bruce Pub. Co. 1961.
Glendenning, F. J. , ed. The Church and the Arts, Rochester; SCM Publications,
1960.
**Goethals, Gregor T. . The Electronic Golden Calf. Cambridge, MA; Cowley
Publications, 1990.
**Harned, David Bailey. Theology and the Arts. Philadelphia, Westminster
Press, 1966.
Hazleton, Roger. A Theological Approach To Art. Nashville; Abingdon,1967.
Heyer, George S. Signs of our Times. Grand Rapids. Eerdmans, 1980.
Hofstadter, Albert. Truth and Art. New York, Funk and Wagnall's, 1965.
Hygen, Johan B. Morality and the Muses. Minneapolis; Augsburg Publishing
House, 1965.
Kandinsky, Wassily. Concerning the Spiritual in Art. New York. Willenborn
Schultz, Inc. 1947 ( for a better understanding of how art got in the
shape it's in today)
Kennick, W. E. Art and Philosophy. New York; St. Martin's Press,1964.
**Kidner, Derek. The Christian and the Arts. London, Intervarsity Press,
1968.
**Kilby, Clyde S. Christianity and Aesthetics. Chicago, Intervarsity Press,
1961.
**Laeuchli, Samuel. Religion and Art In Conflict.Philadelphia, Fortress
Press,
1980.
Liesch, Barry. People in the Presence of God. Grand Rapids; Zondervan, 1988.
Lipsey, Roger. An Art of Our Own- The Spiritual in Twentieth Century Art.
Boston, Shambhala, 1988.
**Lockerbie, D. Bruce. The Liberating Word- Art and the Mystery of the
Gospel. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1974.
-------------., ed. The Timeless Moment- Creativity and the Christian Faith.
Westchester, Il. Cornerstone, 1981.
Montefiore, Hugh. The Gospel and Contemporary Culture. London, Cassel
1992
**Macauley, Ranald, and Barrs, Jerram. Being Human. Downers Grove,
Intervarsity Press, 1978.
Matthews, Thomas F. Art and Religion: Faith, Form and Reform. Columbia,
Mo; UMC Press, 1984.
**Nathan, Walter C. Art and the Message of the Church. Philadelphia, Westminster
Press, 1961
Neibuhr, H. Richard. Christ and Culture. New York, Harper and Row. 1951.
Newlandsmith, Ernest. Art, Love and Life. London, Longmans, Green and Co.
1944.
**Newport, John P. Theology and Contemporary Artforms. Waco, Word Inc.,
1971.
Newton, Eric, and Neil, William. The Christian Faith in Art. London; Hodder
and Stoughton,1966. (good survey)
Orr, James. God's Image in Man. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1948.
Pattison, George. Art, Modernity and Faith. N. Y. St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Reinhold, H. A. . Liturgy and Art- Religious Perspectives. New York, Harper
and Row, 1966 (catholic)
Ritter, Richard H., The Arts of the Church. Boston, Pilgrim Press, 1947.
**Rodman, Seldon. The Eye of Man. New York , Devin-Adair, 1955.
***Rookmaaker, Hans R. Art Needs No Justification. Ontario, Intervarsity
Press, 1978
***-----------------------. The Creative Gift: Essays on Art and the Christian
Life.
Westchester, Il., Cornerstone Books, 1981.
***-----------------------. Modern Art and The Death of a Culture. Downers
Grove, Intervarsity Press, 1973.
***Ryken, Leland. The Christian Imagination- Essays on Literature and the
Arts. Grand Rapids; Baker Book House, 1981.
----------------------. Culture in Christian Perspective. Portland, Multnomah,
1986
**Sayers, Dorothy L. The Mind of the Maker. New York; Harcourt, Brace,
Janovitch, 1941.
***Schaeffer, Francis. Art and the Bible. Westchester, Il.; Crossway,1973.
***---------------. Back to Freedom and Dignity. Westchester, Il. ; Crossway,
1972.
***---------------. Escape From Reason. Westchester, Il.; Crossway,1968.
***---------------. The God Who is There. Westchester, Il. ; Crossway,1968.
***--------------. He Is There and He Is Not Silent. Westchester, Il.
; Crossway, 1972
***-------------. How Should We then Live? Westchester, Il. ; Crossway,
1976.
(Read anything you can get your hands on by him)
***Schaeffer, Franky. Addicted To Mediocrity. Wheaton,; Crossway, 1981.
(good suggested reading list).
**---------. Sham Pearls For Real Swine. Brentwood, Tn.; Wolgemuth and
Hyatt Publishers, 1990.
**Seerveld, Calvin. A Christian Critique of Art and Literature. Toronto;
Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship, 1976.
**-------------. Rainbows For A Fallen World- the Aesthetic Life and the
Artistic Task. Toronto; Tuppence Press, 1980.
**Sire, James W. Discipleship of the Mind. Downer's Grove; Intervarsity
Press, 1990.
**Sproul, R. C. Lifeviews. Old Tappan; Revell, 1986.
Taylor, Mark C. Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion. Chicago; University
of Chicago Press, 1992.
Taylor, William S. Seeing the Mystery. Wood Lake; Wood Lake Books,1989.
Tillich, Paul. On Art and Architecture. New York; Crossroad,1989.
Van der Leeuw. Gerardus. Sacred and Profane Beauty- the Holy in Art.
Winston, Holt, Reinhadt, 1963.
Vasari, Georgio. The Lives of the Artists. o.d.
**Waddell, James. Art and Religion as Communication. Atlanta; John Knox
Press., 1974.
** Walsh, Brian, and Middleton, J. Richard. The Transforming Vision.
Chicago, Intervarsity Press, 1984. (great bibliography).
Walton, Janet R. Art and Worship- A Vital Connection. N.Y. Michael Glazier,
Inc. 1988.
Whittle, Donald. Christianity and the Arts. London, Mowbray and Co. Ltd.
1966
**Wilson, John. One of the Richest Gifts- an Introductory Study of the Arts
from a Christian World View. Edinburgh, Handsel Press Ltd. 1981.
Wilson, Winnefride. Modern Christian Art. MNew York, Hawthorne Books,
1960. (catholic)
**Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art In Action. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1980.
(good bibliography - anything by him is good)
-----------. Works and Worlds of Art. New York, Oxford University Press,
1980.