Shuan Rose wrote:
> Hey, we are making contributions in the field of arts. Think of the
> wonderful, best selling Left Behind series. CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, move over
> :-)
> More seriously, you are correct in that a distinctively Christian
> contribution to the arts seems mostly absent, except from the field of music
> (Christian contemporary & gospel). I don't know of any major contribution by
> Christians in the field of painting, sculpture, or the representational arts
> in the last 100 years. There have been a number of Christian writers.But
> compared to medevial and Renaisance times, Christianity is not doing a lot
> the arts these days, and we should be doing more.
> Below is a relevant excerpt from Keith Miller's post on stewardship . HTH:
There is a pitfall here that needs to be avoided. Some Christians think
that a Christian contribution to the arts has to be a poem,
composition, &c with
an identifiably Christian theme. It doesn't.
George
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