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Christians often clash with themselves and with others about such things as music, popular culture, and worship. However, they usually lack any theology of art or taste suitable to deal…

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Christians often clash with themselves and with others about such things as music, popular culture, and worship. However, they usually lack any theology of art or taste suitable to deal with aesthetic disputes.

In this provocative book, Frank Burch Brown offers a constructive, "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgment, a non-elitist theological aesthetic, but theological discrimination has "teeth but no fangs." Although this book is based on history and theory, it addresses practical questions such as: How can one religious community accommodate a variety of artistic tastes? What good or harm can be done by importing music of universal origin into a house of worship? How can the practice of taste in making art be a spiritual discipline applicable (and sometimes advanced)? By exploring the complex relationship between taste, religious imagination, and faith, Brown offers a new perspective on what it means to be spiritual, religious and Christian.



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