Religion and the Arts in Western Culture

Catalog description

This course explores the web of relationships between religion and the arts throughout the history of Western culture, from biblical times into the postmodern era. Major topics will include: the mutual influences of religion and the arts on each other, how philosophers and theologians have understood the nature of beauty, the place of the visual and performing arts in contemporary Christian faith and practice, and how the arts are an integral component of a biblical worldview.