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A landmark book on the role of visual arts, beauty and aesthetics in ecumenical exchange.
 

In a visual age, this book shares the belief that beauty and art can bridge differences. Essays from catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant artists, scholars, clergy and theologians explore beauty as a means to unify the body of Christ. The occasion of the Reformation commemoration year offers a time to reflect on the rich artistic heritage shared by all Christians and an opportunity to learn from other traditions.

Essays include Calvin and the Visual Arts: The Aesthetics of Soli Deo Gloria, The Artist as Contemplative, and Art and the Liturgy.

Contributors to this book include:
Timothy Verdon, Editor — Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Director (Florence, Italy)
William Dyrness — Fuller Theological Seminary, Professor of Theology
Jérôme Cottin — University of Strasbourg, Professor of Practical Theology
Susan S. Kanaga —Mount Tabor Ecumenical Centre for Art & Spirituality, Artist
Philippo Rossi  Florentine Study Centre of Stanford University, Visiting Professor
Martin Shannon — The Community of Jesus, Liturgist and Director of Formation 

The work of contributors Susan S. Kanaga and Filippo Rossi is currently on display at the Grande Museo del Duomo in Florence, Italy. For more information visit artsandecumenism.org.

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Format: Hardcover book
Product code: PP9248
Dimensions: 6" x 9"
Length: 128 pages
Publisher:
Paraclete Press
ISBN: 9781612619248
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Written by Timothy Verdon

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Impressively informative and inherently thoughtful and thought-provoking, The Ecumenism of Beauty is an extraordinary volume that is very highly recommended for the church, community, and academic library for ecumenical Christian collections, and supplemental studies lists.

Midwest Book Review

Since its formation, God's people have struggled to embrace the rich and comprehensive reality of Christ's Church. It is, therefore, a pleasure to have theologians and artists from Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions gather--as they do in this volume--to consider afresh the vital places of images, art, and beauty, not only within the Church, but also beyond her doors as she invites a world that is hungry for meaning and transcendence to feast on God's good gifts. 

Cameron J. Anderson, Executive Director of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA)

This book signals what surely needs to be central to any future engagement of faith and the arts—an ecumenical spirit that can take differences seriously while constantly trying to find ways in which Christians can more fully live into their inheritance in Christ. 

Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School

The Ecumenism of Beauty is a call to the church to again embrace the arts in service to its liturgy and mission. 

Sandra Bowden, Collector, Curator and Past President of Christians in the Visual Arts

Author

Msgr. Timothy Verdon, an art historian with a PhD from Yale University, directs both the Diocesan Office of Sacred Art and Church Cultural Heritage in Florence, and the Cathedral Foundation Museum (Museo dell’Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore). Author of books and articles on sacred art in Italian and English, he has been a Consultant to the Vatican Commission for Church Cultural Heritage and a Fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and currently teaches in the Florence Program of Stanford University. He writes regularly for the cultural page of the Osservatore Romano and in 2010 curated the exhibit Christ. His Body, His Face in Art at the Reggia di Venaria Reale at Turin. Msgr. Verdon is also Director of the Centre for Ecumenism of the Archdiocese of Florence. He lives in Florence, where he is a Canon of the Cathedral. His two books, Art and Prayer: The Beauty of Turning to God and The Story of Saint Fraincis of Assisi: In Twenty-eight Scenes are part of the Mount Tabor Books series.