Consider the Lilies. I was in a surreal painting. I use The Five Hundred Year Question (Refractions 19:) in teaching Literature and Aesthetics for high school students. Poet, Dana Gioia said, "The goal of arts education is not to create artists, although that is a fine by-product: the goal of arts education is to create better doctors, engineers, politicians, teachers, fathers and mothers. Then we had to see his Four Gospel paintings at MOBIA in NYC six months later. Yes, that is T. S. Eliot's The Four Quartets: For us there is only the trying.
One thing leads to another and the idea incarnated: Dr. Smith asked Makoto to speak for this year's conference. "Jesus is the great kintsugi master. The book is enormous, a gorgeous hardcover housed in a sturdy slipcover. A premiere exhibition of the art created for The Four Holy Gospels is planned for December of 2010, at the Dillon Gallery in New York City. Communicating about art and theology outside the boundaries of the institutional church. This podcast featured artist Makoto Fujimura and theologian Miroslav Volf. Each of the Gospels opens with a full-page painting related to a major theme Fujimura finds in that Gospel: "Consider the Lilies" (Matthew); "Water Flames" (Mark); "The Prodigal God" (Luke); and "In the Beginning" (John). "Artists stay dangerously close to death and life". Ask Charlotte Mason. What we do not have is a language, a cultural language, to bring people back home.
William James on conversion: everything becomes new for the converted. Accentuating the fracture. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
What is a life worthy of our humanity? The reasons for God's creation. As well as being a leading contemporary painter, Fujimura is also an arts advocate, writer, and speaker who is recognized worldwide as a cultural influencer. The exhibition has travelled to Baylor, Duke, and Yale Universities, Cambridge University, Hiroshima City University and other institutions around the globe.
You have to be careful when you give a book. And "In the Beginning, " above, is reproduced in the book facing the first words of John's Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word. Friends & Following. I have been a fan of Fujimura's work since I read of him in World in 2005. Letting the senses become part of our prayer. The Four Holy Gospels is an exquisitely designed and produced edition of the four canonical Gospels in the English Standard Version, published in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Version (KJV) Bible in 1611. 168 pages, Leather Bound. We need poets, for this reason, for the terms to identify in the way scientists do. Co-mingling our tears with Christ's tears. Is a collaboration with artist Bruce Herman, composer Christopher Theofanidis, and theologian Jeremy Begbie. Bucknell University honored him with the Outstanding Alumni Award in 2012. We need to go back to the poets and artists and dancers and writers. The scandal of God's incarnation: In becoming incarnate, God's utter independence is flipped to utter dependence.
The Four Holy Gospels stands in the historic stream of the beautifully hand-illuminated editions of the Gospels created many centuries ago. In 2014, the American Academy of Religion named Fujimura as its 2014 "Religion and the Arts" award recipient. I gave Makoto Fujimura's Refractions to Dr. Carroll Smith after a workshop he gave in Charlotte in 2010. Hosted by Evan Rosa.