“Meaning had visual motion and sensory distinctions depending if it was common or holy, it worked along and through all the physical senses—sight, smell, taste, touch, sound. It was not limited to sound alone, as if faith comes only by speaking/hearing alone (even though it is the primary modus operandi of evangelism and worship, cf. Romans 10:9-11,14-17; 2 Corinthians 4:13-15, 10:5; James 3:1-2). God commissioned sacred art in the form of visuals and rituals to benefit His holy nation. To set the common things apart from the things of God.”
This is a really stellar point. Several times before, I’ve heard Catholic brothers in Christ lob the challenge that Protestantism has no high art. While this is not necessarily true, the emphasis for creation certainly shifted from the canvas to the hymnal. The reformation produced some of the most enduring music of all time!
To her discredit, Western Evangelicalism is certainly beholden to some extreme form of minimalism. I don't understand it, really. Its not as if Protestantism as a whole suffers from this.
Too true! "Before meat suits were fashionable and Gnosticism was the new black, before Baptism was reduced to works righteousness and Communion was trivialized to a game of Simon Says, and long before our world was particles and plastic, the visible world augmented divine intentionality."
"If we forbid the visual arts from being sacred, then visual arts can only be secular. If the visual arts can only be secular, then there are spheres in life that do not belong to Christ, individually and corporately." This is a very good point.
“Meaning had visual motion and sensory distinctions depending if it was common or holy, it worked along and through all the physical senses—sight, smell, taste, touch, sound. It was not limited to sound alone, as if faith comes only by speaking/hearing alone (even though it is the primary modus operandi of evangelism and worship, cf. Romans 10:9-11,14-17; 2 Corinthians 4:13-15, 10:5; James 3:1-2). God commissioned sacred art in the form of visuals and rituals to benefit His holy nation. To set the common things apart from the things of God.”
This is a really stellar point. Several times before, I’ve heard Catholic brothers in Christ lob the challenge that Protestantism has no high art. While this is not necessarily true, the emphasis for creation certainly shifted from the canvas to the hymnal. The reformation produced some of the most enduring music of all time!
To her discredit, Western Evangelicalism is certainly beholden to some extreme form of minimalism. I don't understand it, really. Its not as if Protestantism as a whole suffers from this.
Too true! "Before meat suits were fashionable and Gnosticism was the new black, before Baptism was reduced to works righteousness and Communion was trivialized to a game of Simon Says, and long before our world was particles and plastic, the visible world augmented divine intentionality."
"If we forbid the visual arts from being sacred, then visual arts can only be secular. If the visual arts can only be secular, then there are spheres in life that do not belong to Christ, individually and corporately." This is a very good point.