It’s helpful to consider what imagination is as put forth in the Hebrew Scriptures. The Hebrew term for imagination is either yatsar or yetser. It is a term that is used, for example in...
Modern culture’s ideas about art seem to designate “artists” as a specialized elite group of art-makers. First, are the elite whose artistic skills are very high. They possess an extreme level of virtuosity—whether people...
Question How do finite people have a relational interaction with a Divine God? Artistic expression, as observed in the biblical record, is essential to life and Christian ministry—especially the worship ministries of the Church....
No one can believe anything they can’t imagine. This reality makes artists and evangelism intimately go together. “But what about the importance of the content of evangelism?” one might ask. Most of you reading this blog agree...
In Exodus 35 we see one of the most helpful summary passages in Scripture that reveals a description and role of the artistic specialist in the life of the believing community. This Old Testament...
The Hebrew term for imagination is either yatsar or yetser. Yatsar means to fashion in the mind before forming in time and space. That is, to fashion in the mind also holds in its...
Despite the marvelous assets God gave to humans through imagination, Protestants historically manifest three concerns with the human capacity to imagine. One challenge is that this term can be used to underscore wrong or...
Evangelical author and philosophy professor Dallas Willard writes, “Sometimes important things can be presented in literature and art that cannot be effectively presented in any other way.” Given the way God has designed the...
