Art and the religious imagination
A conversation with Rowan Williams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21719682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Lewer (0000-0003-2697-1692, University of Glasgow), Rowan Williams (0009-0008-2378-1213, Canterbury Archaeological Trust) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-34 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theology in Scotland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-2862 • E-ISSN: 2755-9238 |
| Publisher | University of St. Andrews Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15664/tis.v29i1.2418 |
| OpenAlex | W4280521358 |
| Language | EN |
Dr Deborah Lewer introduces this conversation between herself and Dr Rowan Williams by reflecting on how word and image point to the risk and the promise involved in words about wordless works of art. As a theologian, poet, and former Archbishop of Canterbury, Williams highlights the ongoing, responsive, and dynamic relationship that human beings can develop with particular pieces of visual art. Such an interaction can be extended when a painting is responded to by another medium – for instance, that of a poem. It is in the transcendence and indeterminacy of a piece of art that Williams locates imagination’s link to faith
Aesthetics · Archbishop · Art · Art history · Conversation · Epistemology · Faith · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Painting · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Rowan · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |