Bibliography: Theology and the Art
03 December 2021

 

Here is a list of the most important books written in the field of the relation between theology and the art:


Andreapoulos, Andreas (2007). Art as Theology from the Postmodern to the Medieval. New York: Routledge.

 

Avis, Paul (1999). God and the Creative Imagination: Metaphor, Symbol and Myth in Religion and Theology. New York: Routledge.

 

Balthazar, Hans Urs von (1989). The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics. (Vols. 1-7). Joseph Fessio and John Riches (Ed.). Andrew Louth, Francis McDonagh, Brian McNeil, et al (Trans.). San Francisco: Ignatius.

 

Baumgarten, Barbara Dee (1995). Visual art as theology. New York: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers.

 

Begbie, Jeremy (2000). Theology, Music and Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Blackwell, Albert (1999). The Sacred in Music. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.

 

Boursier, Helen T. (2021). Art as Witness: A Practical Theology of Arts-Based Research. Minneapolis, MN: ‎ Lexington Books.

 

Brand, Hilary & Adrienne Chaplin (2002). Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Art (2nd ed). InterVarsity Press.

 

Brown, Frank Burch (2000). Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste Aesthetics in Religious Life. North Carolina: Oxford University Press.

 

Brown, Frank Burch (2014). Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Brown, Frank Burch (1989). Religious Aesthetics: A Theological Study of Making and Meaning. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Coleman, Earle J. (1998). Creativity and Spirituality: Bonds between Art and Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press.

 

Farley, Edward (2001). Faith and beauty: a theological aesthetic. New York: Routledge.

 

Harned, David Bailey (1966). Theology and the Arts. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

 

Illman, Ruth & Smith, W. Alan (2013). Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith. New York: Routledge.

Manoussakis, John Panteleimon (2007). God After Metaphysics A Theological Aesthetic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

 

Navone SJ, John (1996). Toward a Theology of Beauty. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.

 

Newport, John P (1971). Theology and contemporary art forms. Waco, Tex.: Word Books.

 

Nichols, Aidan (2011). Lost in Wonder: Essays on Liturgy and the Arts. New York: Routledge.

 

Nichols, Aidan (2013). Redeeming Beauty: Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics. New York: Routledge.

 

Reierson, Gary B. (1988). The art in preaching: the intersection of theology, worship, and preaching with the arts. Lanham: University Press of America.

 

Richards, Kirk (2002). For glory and for beauty: practical perspectives on Christianity and the visual arts. Minneapolis, Minn. New York: Newington Cropsey Foundation.

 

Robinson, David C. (2007). God's grandeur: the arts and imagination in theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.

 

Saliers, Don (2007). Music and Theology. Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon press.

 

Viladesau, Richard (1999).Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Viladesau, Richard (2000). Theology and the arts: encountering God through music, art, and rhetoric. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press.

 

Weiss, Paul (1964). Religion & Art (Aquinas Lecture, 1963). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press.

 

Yates, Wilson (1987). The Arts in Theological Education: New Possibilities for Integration. Atlanta: Scholars Press.