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How Can Art Bring About Such A Great Thing?, David Mcnutt
How Can Art Bring About Such A Great Thing?, David Mcnutt
Symposium on Worship Archive
How can a consideration of one of the most divisive issues during the Reformation helpfully inform the church’s corporate worship today? Questions surrounding the theology and practice of the church’s sacraments—including their number, their nature, and their function—were among the most hotly contested issues during the Reformation. Likewise, the category of sacrament has been appealed to in recent considerations of the arts and their place in the life of the church. In this session, participants will consider what we can learn from the sacramental life of the Reformed church and how that can inform our understanding of the potential role …
Marking Time: Dressing The Church For The Liturgical Year, Deborah Sokolove
Marking Time: Dressing The Church For The Liturgical Year, Deborah Sokolove
Symposium on Worship Archive
The seasons and special days of the church year are often marked visually by artworks that come and go. In this session we will examine art as a congregational practice in which both adults and children produce banners, paraments, installations, and other occasional artworks that take their place in the worship space alongside those elements that are permanent. Participants are encouraged to send images of what their own congregations do to dress their churches as a way of marking liturgical time.