In God’s House there are Many Rooms (Jn 14.2–27)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14949040 |
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| Authors | Debra Phillips (0000-0001-8548-7409, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-110 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-7350 • E-ISSN: 1745-5189 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0966735016657716 |
| OpenAlex | W2510519839 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In this article I make links between melancholia, creativity and communion with God at a personal level, referencing John’s gospel, ‘God’s house has many rooms’ (14.2–3) and ‘The Mansions’, a text written by Theresa of Avila where the ‘mansion’ is an analogy for the space in which God’s omniscient love is realized. My paintings were formed from the day-to-day lived experience of ‘psycheache’ (Joiner, 2005: 37) and are a graphic representation of a non-explainable reality. I see in these paintings a transcendent reality for they are the markings I made to express a state-of-being that could not be articulated. During this episode of Depression I painted dark interiors with rambling corridors, flights of steps and doorways leading into rooms empty of people
Aesthetics · Analogy · Art · Art history · Creativity · Epistemology · Gospel · Literature · Painting · Visual arts · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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