Spirituality and the Arts

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Discussion of the Christian faith as the source of inspiration for artists, poets, novelists, and musicians across the centuries, and in more recent times also for film-makers. A survey of several classical examples of Christian inspired art so as to see the way faith, hope and love are presented. Themes: Jesus and Christians in the movies, hope and despair in the poetry of Hopkins, peace in the music of Hildegard of Bingen, faith in the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, marriage and the family in the novels of Sigrid Undset, evangelism in the paintings of Caravaggio.