摘要：1]Husband and wife William and Aida Spencer have gathered a collection of nine essays by academics and practicing artists in this book to explore the role of the arts in the Christian life. Their concern is primarily with contemporary art and they include a variety of mediums: fiction and poetry, music, painting and sculpture, dance, drama, and cinema.[2]The overall tone of the essays is decidedly apologetic and practical. Not only do the authors think that the arts are an integral part of what it means to be human, but that the arts also help people understand both God and themselves. More problematic, for some readers at least, will be the underlying tenor of the apology that seems to insist that there also be a normative biblical and theological hermeneutic for any Christian use of the arts. Every essay concludes with a list of activities that readers might do or reflect on to further explore the connection between the arts and Christian life
