Transforming Christian thought in the visual arts : theology, aesthetics, and practic. / edited by Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Epigraph -- Introduction: Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts -- Theology -- Aesthetics -- Practice -- Part 1: Re-Working the Bible Beyond Symbolic Expression -- Part 2: Re-Shaping Institutional and Historical Re-Shaping-Cross-Currents -- Part 3: Re-Discovering Church Space in Liturgy, Performance, and Installation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1 Re-Working the Bible Beyond Symbolic Expression -- Chapter 1 'the Hearing Ear and the Seeing Eye': Transformative Listening to the Biblical Image -- The Bible Is a Site of Sound: Varieties of Acoustic Types -- Theology, Sound, and Vision: Indications of An Integrated Perspective -- Listening to Visual Art With Biblical Subject Matter: Summoning Sonic Allusion -- Sounds Like… : Sonic Similes in Scripture -- 'The Voice of the Lord': Audible Manifestations of God -- Silence: The Significance of the Cessation of Sound -- See for Yourself: Inner Visualisation and Audition -- Sonifying the Bible: A Sound-Art Practice Perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Photography As the Bible's New Illumination -- Victorian Contexts and Francis Frith's Holy Bible, 1861 -- Present Day Contexts and Visionaire's 'bible', 1999 -- Praxis and the Author's Scriptorium, 2018 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 The Visual Commentary On Scripture: Principles and Possibilities -- What Is the Vcs? -- Exhibition As Commentary -- The Vcs As Conversation -- Theological Warrants -- Concluding Remark -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Virgin and the Visual Artist As Theologian: Examining Two Marian Images By David Jones -- Guenever -- Aphrodite in Aulis.

Tradition and Innovation: Distinctive and Typical Features in the Wider Marianism of David Jones -- Mary in Incarnational Theology: Bethlehem and Calvary -- Mary's Typical Representative Function -- Distinctive Features in Jones' Marianism -- Marian Associations of Guenever in Jones' Poetry -- Seeing Mary in the Jonesian Image -- Conclusion: David Jones' Indirect Approach to Mary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Praxis I lavant -- WAIT -- LAVANT -- After Thought -- References -- Part 2 Re-Shaping Institutional and Historical Re-Shaping-Cross-Currents -- 5 'a Sacred Art of the State': Public Commissions for French Churches, Abbeys, and Cathedrals -- The Ministry of Culture and Communication -- Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte, Nevers, Nièvre (1977-2011) -- Saint-Prim, Isère (1999-2004) -- Contemporary Non-Religious Thought and the Christian Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 The Chapel at Royal Holloway: Visual Theology and Women's Education -- External Carvings -- Sculpture in the Porch and Lintel -- Bas-reliefs in the Nave -- Ceiling Decoration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The 'sacred Pastoral' As the Manifestation of Spirituality in the Work of Bishop William Giles -- Biographical Background -- Samuel Palmer and the Ancients -- The Sacred Pastoral Aesthetic -- The Sacred Pastoral in Giles' Photographs -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Praxis II HS -- References -- Part 3 Re-Discovering Church Space in Liturgy, Performance, and Installation -- 8 Bin Bag Visions: Theological Horizons in Maciej Urbanek's Hs -- The Spirit Hovers Over the Waters -- The Light Shines in the Darkness -- Ambiguity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Public Liturgical Theology Through Community and Public Art -- Introducing Beyond -- Beyond As Public Theology -- Case Studies -- 1. 'jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem', Gaza and Vanity Fair.

2. Jesus and Final Crisis: The Ultimate Crossover Event -- 3. 'god in the Hut' and the New Sacrament of 'breaking Light' -- Beyond As Liturgical Public Theology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Stations of the Cross and Stations of the Resurrection: Interdisciplinary Art Practice and Its Implications for Visual Theology -- Interdisciplinarity As Context -- Integrative Strategies in Stations of the Cross and Stations of the Resurrection -- 1. Juxtaposition -- 2. Simultaneity -- 3. Parataxis -- Held Difference and Aesthetic Register -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Envoi -- Notes -- Index -- Biblical Reference Index.