Art and Worship: A Bibliographical Guide to Published Resources
David Morgan
Valparaiso University
1. For applications of the arts to Christian worship:
Richard R. Caemmerer, Jr., Visual Art in the Life of the Church: Encouraging Creative Worship and Witness in the Congregation. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1983
Linda M. Goens, Praising God Through the Lively Arts. Abingdon Press, 1999
Robert
E. Webber, ed., Music and the Arts in Christian Worship, 2 vols.
Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1995
Robert
E. Webber, The Creative Mixture of Old and New. Abingdon Press,
1998
Robert
E. Webber. Achieving Substance and Relevance in Worship. Hedrickson,
1996
Kenneth T. Lawrence, ed., Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary Resource, vol. 1. United Church Press, 1994.
Susan A. Blain, Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary Resource, vol. 2. United Church Press, 1995
Kenneth T. Lawrence, ed., Imaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary Resource, vol. 3. United Church Press, 1996
2. For studies of art, worship, worship space, and liturgy:
Doug Adams and Michael Moynahan, eds., Post-Modern Worship and the Arts. San Jose: Resource Publications, 2002.
African American Experience in Worship and the Arts. New Haven: Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, 1992.
Colum Hourihane, ed., Objects, Images, and the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Jeanne Hagren Kilde, When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Anne C. Loveland and Otis B. Wheeler, From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Janet Walton, Art and Worship: A Vital Connection. Wilmington: M. Glazier, 1988
James F. White and Susan J. White, Church Architecture: Building and Renovating for Christian Worship. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1988.
James F. White, Protestant Worship and Church Architecture: Theological and Historical Considerations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Nigel Yates, Buildings, Faith, and Worship: The Liturgical Arrangement of Anglican Churches, 1600-1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1991.
3. For an illuminating case-study of art patronage (and how not to do it), see:
4. For an ethnographic-historical study of rebuilding a church, see:
Gretchen Buggeln, “Architecture as Community Service: West Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware,”in David Morgan and Sally M. Promey, eds., The Visual Culture of American Religions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 87-101.
For studies of American attitudes toward religion and the arts, see:
Alberta Arthurs and Glenn Wallach, eds., Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life. New York: The New Press, 2001.
6. For varied denominational guides, see the following:
Robert E. Wunderlich, Worship and the Arts: A Study of the Life of the Church Expressed in Worship and the Arts. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1966
John W. Cook, “To a Parish on the Verge of Construction or Renovation,”pamphlet published by the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, Division of the Evangelism and Local Church Development, in Partnership with the Fellowship of United Church of Christ Architects, no date.
7. For an overview of religious stained glass in the United States:
Virginia Raguin, Glory in Glass. Stained Glass in the United States: Origin, Variety, and Preservation. Exhibition catalogue, The Gallery at the American Bible Society. New York: American Bible Society, 1999.
8. On regional styles of church architecture in the United States:
Peter W. Williams, Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States. Urban, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
1. For a profusely illustrated collection of images that is very engaging in thinking about the implications of images of Jesus:
Jaroslav Pelkian, The Illustrated Jesus through the Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
2. For images of Jesus from around the world, expressed in the visual vernacular of a great variety of world cultures:
John F. Butler, Christian Art in India. Madras, India: Christian Literature Society, 1986.
Masao Takenaka and Ron O’Grady, The Bible through Asian Eyes. Auckland, New Zealand: Pace Publishing, 1991.
Andrew F. Walls, “The Western Discovery of Non-Western Christian Art,”in Walls, The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books; Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1996, pp. 173-86
Anton Wessels, Images of Jesus: How Jesus is Perceived and Portrayed in Non-European Cultures. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
3. Perhaps the best recent exhibition on images of Jesus was called "Seeing Salvation," at the National Gallery in London. The catalogue is available and is clearly organized, well-written, and beautifully produced:
Gabriele Finaldi, The Image of Christ. London: National Gallery; distributed by Yale University Press, 2000.
4. On popular images of Jesus:
David Morgan, Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
III. Religious Aesthetics
For studies of the arts, taste, and philosophies of beauty as they relate to Christianity, as treated by scholars as well as advocates of particular religious traditions:
Jeremy S. Begbie and Colin E. Gunton, Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts. Edinburgh: T&T Clark Ltd., 2000
Frank Burch Brown, Good Taste, Bad Taste, Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Earl Jerome Coleman, Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds Between Art and Religion. State University of New York Press, 1998
John Dillenberger, A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities: The Visual Arts and the Church. New York: Crossroad, 1986.
William
A. Dyrness, Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue.
Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001
Richard Egenter, The Desecration of Christ, tr. Edward Quinn, ed. Nicolette Gray. Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1967.
Paul Corby Finney, ed., Seeing Beyond the Word: The Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
Paul Giles. American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Gregor T. Goethals, The TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.
John de Gruchy, Christianity, Art, and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
George S. Heyer, Signs of Our Times: Theological Essays on Art in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.
Patrick R. Keifert, “Truth and Taste on Sunday Morning,”Dialog 25, no. 3 (Summer 1986): 193-200.
Franky Schaeffer. Addicted To Mediocrity: 20th Century Christians and the Arts. Westchester, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1981.
Patrick Sherry. Spirit and Beauty: An Introduction to Theological Aesthetics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Calvin Seerveld, A Christian Critique of Art and Literature. Toronto, Canada: Association for Reformed Scientific Studies, 1968.
Gerardus Van der Leeuw, Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1953 [orig. 1932]
Richard Viladesau, Theology and the Arts: Encountering God Through Music, Art, and Rhetoric. Paulist Press, 2000
__________. Theological
Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999.
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.
Various citations in e-publications that frequently address worship and the arts:
Cathy Townley, “Musings on Art- and the Relationship to Worship in the 21st Century,”http://www.next-wave.org/apr00/musings_on_art.htm
Jerry Hames, “Adding Art to Worship: Nancy Chinn transforms Liturgical Spaces,”http://www.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal-life/ASChinn.html
“Environment and Art for Worship,”Assembly, Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy, http://www.nd.edu/~ndcpl/Publications/Assembly/topical8.html
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