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Art and Faith

A Theology of Making

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Art and Faith

By: Makoto Fujimura, N.T. Wright - foreword
Narrated by: David Shih
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From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity's quintessential - and often overlooked - role in the spiritual life

Conceived over 30 years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura's broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of "making". What he does in the studio is theological work as much as it is aesthetic work. In between pouring precious, pulverized minerals onto handmade paper to create the prismatic, refractive surfaces of his art, he comes into the quiet space in the studio, in a discipline of awareness, waiting, prayer, and praise.

Ranging from the Bible to T. S. Eliot, and from Mark Rothko to Japanese Kintsugi technique, he shows how unless we are making something, we cannot know the depth of God's being and God's grace permeating our lives. This poignant and beautiful book offers the perspective of, in Christian Wiman's words, "an accidental theologian", one who comes to spiritual questions always through the prism of art.

©2020 Makoto Fujimura (P)2021 eChristian Art Religious Studies

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One of the best books I’ve ever encountered. Brilliant in its other side emphasis of beauty. Makoto Fujimura kept me up till early morning. There are so many gems hidden in the exquisite writing, read so well. I made copious notes, clicked back so many times, passed to let the words sink in.

It’s a book to take slow. To focus hard when listening. To give your intuition catch up. Rush this book, or try and listen to it as a background comfort, and you probably miss the whole point. Like a highway ride past an exquisite garden all is lost and missed.

I can see myself coming back again and again.

Brilliant

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The author does make beautiful art. But this book is non-inspirational and a dread to listen to. 80% is Bible citations that are just meaningless in regard to creativity in art and are down right annoying. They all say the same thing: as God is the first and ultimate Creator so should we be.
I managed to listen to 3/4 with difficulty. A waste of a credit.

A waste of time

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