Starting in September, Dean Harding and our arts missioner, Brynna Carpenter-Nardone, invite you to read along with their notes and discuss “Art + Faith: A Theology of Making” by contemporary painter Makoto Fujimura.

The book is published by Yale University Press with a foreword by N.T. Wright. It is not necessary to own a copy of the book, but you can purchase it or read an excerpt by clicking HERE.

From the book jacket:

Conceived over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of “making.” What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. In between pouring precious, pulverized minerals onto handmade paper to create the prismatic, refractive surfaces of his art, he comes into the quiet space in the studio, in a discipline of awareness, waiting, prayer, and praise.

Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot, and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique, he shows how unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God’s being and God’s grace permeating our lives. This poignant and beautiful book offers the perspective of, in Christian Wiman’s words, “an accidental theologian,” one who comes to spiritual questions always through the prism of art.

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